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Author Burstein, Andrew.

Title Democracy's muse : how Thomas Jefferson became an FDR liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party fanatic, all the while being dead / Andrew Burstein.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages : illustrations)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Political setting -- "Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny": nineteen forty-three -- "His mind liberal and accommodating": when John F. Kennedy dined in company -- "We confide in our own strength": the Reagan revolution(ary) -- "The boisterous ocean of political passions": Jefferson since William Jefferson Clinton -- Part II. Culture wars -- "Misery enough, but no poetry": race and the remaking of a symbol -- "Abortion to their hopes": Jefferson versus religious authority -- "History becomes fable": yesterday's future.
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Subject Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Political and social views.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Influence.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects.
United States.
History.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
Political oratory -- United States -- History.
Political oratory.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
ISBN 9780813937236 (electronic book)
081393723X (electronic book)
9780813937229 (cloth) (alkaline paper)