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Article: "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry.(Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy)(Book review)
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- Journal of the Early Republic
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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"I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry. By Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler. (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. 206. Cloth, $55.00.)
Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. By Francis D. Cogliano. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006; first published in the UK in 2006 by Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 276. Cloth, $45.00.)
Ronald Hatzenbuehler's book asks a particularly promising question: How did Thomas Jefferson's lifelong membership in the Virginia gentry inform his deepest values? It is promising because there is an important argument to be made about how Jefferson's cosmopolitanism and ...