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Published by Vintage Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 0679764410ISBN 13: 9780679764410
Seller: Gulf Coast Books, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good.
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Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679444904ISBN 13: 9780679444909
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
ISBN 10: 0965057976ISBN 13: 9780965057974
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. First Edition (stated). Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by NY: Vintage Books, 1998
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good trade paperback (slight wear; lower corner of a few pages are "dog-eared"). Appendix, notes, index, 440pp.
Ellis, Joseph J., Vintage Books (Random House), 1998, c1997, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 440 pp with appendix, notes & index, 8vo, ISBN: 0679764410, 'This elegant book on Jefferson sets a standard; history at its best', National Book Award winner.
Ellis, Joseph J., Vintage Books (Random House), 1998, c1996, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine, 440 pp with appendix, notes & index, 8vo, ISBN: 0679764410, 'Sets a standard; history at its best', National Book Award winner. Biography; U.S. Presidents; U.S. History.
Published by NY Vintage (1998)., 1998
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
VG PB. Ellis restores our most enigmatic national icon to human dimensions. 2nd ptg edition.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf February 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679444904ISBN 13: 9780679444909
Seller: Book People, Henrico, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. DJ now protected in Mylar. Condition of the book is Very Good. A little shelf worn but looks unread.
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Seller: Inkberry Books, Niwot, CO, U.S.A.
Very Good. Condition: Very Good. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Psychology.
Published by Vintage, NY, 1998
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 6th ed.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679444904ISBN 13: 9780679444909
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Top page ridge foxed. 1997 Hard Cover. xiv, 365 pp. "For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight -- and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1896); and in the subsequent seventeen decades of his celebrity--now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety--has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person. For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was "as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, has discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing." In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams."For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large -- a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to 'keep it in storage'). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naïveté, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all -- our very own sphinx.
Published by G K Hall & Co May 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0783890761ISBN 13: 9780783890760
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. As new condition dark gray boards/green spine/black spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Jeffersonian Surge: America, 1992-93; Epilogue: The Future of an Illusion; Appendix: A Note on the Sally Hemings Scandal; Notes and Index. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER. Fourteenth printing. "For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight - and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1826); and in the subsequent seventeen decades his celebrity - now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety - has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person. For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was 'as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, had discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing.' In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today 'hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams." For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large - a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to "keep it in storage"). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naivete, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all - our very own sphinx." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
Published by Vintage Books New York 1998, 1998
Seller: Dedalus-Libros, Madrid, MAD, Spain
440 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .
Published by Vintage Books New York 1998, 1998
Seller: Dedalus-Libros, Madrid, MAD, Spain
440 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2000
Seller: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Full Calf. Collector's Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed natural calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xiv, 365. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Together with histories of the founding of the republic, since 1993 Ellis has written biographies about individual early presidents and, in 2010, a joint biography of John and Abigail Adams. Interested in how men shaped and were shaped by their times, he writes with a novelist's emphasis on character. Ellis is notable as a respected scholar whose work has also gained popular success; his biography of Jefferson and work on the Founding Fathers have been bestsellers, attaining sales of hundreds of thousands of copies. In 2004, the critic Jonathan Yardley wrote of him: "Ellis doubtless is now the most widely read scholar of the Revolutionary period, and thus probably the most influential as wellat least among the general public." In exceptionally good condition.
Published by New York, Vintage Books,, New York, 1998
paperback. Condition: Molto buono (Very Good). . 8vo. pp. XIX + 440. . Molto buono (Very Good). . . . Book.
Published by The Easton Press, 2000
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Collector's edition. Full brown leather with gilt lettering and embellishments, silk moire endpapers and bookmark. Minor edge wear may be present due to storage, otherwise NF, unread.
Published by Blackstone Audio, Inc., Ashland, OR, 1999
ISBN 10: 0786114754ISBN 13: 9780786114757
Book
Audiobook cassette. Condition: Fine. Library Edition; 2.26 x 9.67 x 6.93 Inches; Unabridged audio. Set of 11 cassettes in clam shell case. Cassettes appear bright and fresh. Case immaculate. Fine/Like New.
Published by Easton Press
Seller: Sunshine State Books, Lithia, FL, U.S.A.
leather_bound. Condition: As New. Leather bound--no flaws.
Published by Norwalk, The Easton Press, [, 1996
Seller: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Collector's Edition, bound in leather. Embossed ownership stamp on title page; otherwise very good condition. ]. 365p. Collector's Edition, bound in leather.
Published by The Easton Press
Seller: Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Volume is bound in brown leather with gold foil-stamping on the boards and spine. All edges gilt. Bound-in ribbon. Book is fully fine.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Malombra, Vicenza, VI, Italy
XIV, 365 pp.; 24,5 cm. Cart. edit. con sovrac. Ex libris all'interno della copertina. Molto buono.
Published by Easton Press, 2000
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: fine. no jacket. Leather bound. Like new.
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2000
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Deep tan lleather with lettering and decoration in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire silk endleaves, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread with tight binding, clean pages, no names, no bookplates and no other markings. . Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 2000
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo. Full brown leather with gilt spine lettering & gilt design on covers. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Silk end-papers. 365pp. Couple very faint scratches in gilt of fore-edge, else fine.
Published by Easton Press
Seller: Elder's Bookstore, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Like New leatherbound hardcover, still in shrink wrap. ; 6 1/2" x 9 1/2".
Published by The Easton Press
Seller: The Book Files, Broken Arrow, OK, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Book is like new. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***.