The autobiography the declaration of independence
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My father, E. K. Brown, was a noted academic having gotten a State Doctorate in English at the Sorbonne, first in his class at the University of Toronto, and Chairman of the English Departments at Cornell and Manitoba at 29. He moved to the University of Chicago due to the energy of Robert Hutchins. With that in mind, but not the full intellect, I studied history at Harvard College with George Frederickson, later Chairman at Northwestern and Stanford, and wrote my undergraduate this on Civilizing the Machine: 1865 to 1900 under Neil Harris, later Chairman at Chicago. Perhaps their greatest achievement was preparing me for the General Exam in which I received a Distinction, which, in turn energized me to write and study history for the rest of my life.
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Autobiography of Socialist Jefferson
Jefferson grew up sidewalk a universe that was changing manual labor around him, born deduct the
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“Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality, and embraced in his view the whole future of man.”—Henry Adams
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) left a vast literary legacy in the form of journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. This extraordinary volume represents many of his most important contributions to American political thought. It features his Autobiography, which contains the original and revised versions of the Declaration of Independence; the Anas, or Notes (1791–1809); Biographical Sketches; selections from Notes on the State of Virginia, the Travel Journals, and Essay on Anglo-Saxon; a portion of his public papers, including his first and second inaugural addresses; and more than two hundred letters. Taken together, these writings offer indispensable insight into the mind of the man who was instrumental in formulating and guiding this nation’s principles.
From the Preface:
This selection from the writings of Thomas Jefferson is planned to be a comprehensive presentation of his thought. The greatest amount of space has been allotted to his letters, in the belief that they are of primary importance in revealing the man and his intellect. Jefferson’s two original full-length works, the Notes on Virginia and the Autobiography, are give