Description: "Does Thomas Jefferson still matter?" ask two leading historians on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Brief description: Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the New York Times best-selling author or coauthor of fourteen books, including, with Annette Gordon-Reed, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs." He lives in Connecticut and Maine.
Review Quotes: A powerful argument for the continuing importance of Thomas Jefferson in our troubled and turbulent times. These two great scholars of Jeffersonian America, using Jefferson's belief in generational sovereignty and his utter faith in us, that is, the future generations of American people, have brilliantly described for us the various ways Jefferson still matters.--Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Friends Divided