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Negro President: Jefferson And The Slave Power
by Wills, Garry
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition (Number Line With The One Present). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Book Is Bound In One Quarter Black Cloth Over Brown Paper With Gilt Stamped Lettering On The Spine.
Synopsis
In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage. Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Heming to look at the political relationship between the president and slavery. Jefferson won the election of 1800 with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves, who could not vote but who were partially counted as citizens. That count was known as "the slave power" granted to southern states, and it made some Federalists call Jefferson the Negro President -- one elected only by the slave count's margin. Probing the heart of Jefferson's presidency, Wills reveals how the might of the slave states was a concern behind Jefferson's most important decisions and policies, including his strategy to expand the nation west. But the president met with resistance: Timothy Pickering, now largely forgotten, was elected to Congress to wage a fight against Jefferson and the institutions that supported him. Wills restores Pickering and his allies' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson and the creation of the new nation. In "Negro President," Wills offers a bold rethinking of one of American history's greatest icons.
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- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032544
- Title
- Negro President: Jefferson And The Slave Power
- Author
- Wills, Garry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 274
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Jefferson, Thomas, - 1743-1826 - Relations With African Americans; Presidents - United States - Biography; Slavery - Political Aspects - United States - History. Presidents & Heads of State
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Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
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Woodlawn, Illinois
About Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
I have a small inventory of about 23,000 titles. I sell from my own property and only on-line. I started selling on line in 1999. This is my Fourth year with Biblio.
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