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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800
 
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 (Paperback)

by CC OBrien (Author)
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  • Paperback: 386 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press; 2nd edition (7 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226616568
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226616568
  • Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 15 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This is an examination of Thomas Jefferson as both man and icon through the critical lens of the French Revolution. The book offers a provocative analysis of the supreme symbol of American history and political culture and challenges the traditional perceptions of both Jefferson and his legacy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 4 April 2004
By Amore Roberto "Amore Roberto" (Pinerolo -Turin- ITALY) - See all my reviews
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This book is a well read analysis of the political thought of Thomas Jefferson.
So the story of his life and times enters only when it may be of help in understanding the development of his political ideas.
I greatly enjoyed this book, because it has the rare gift of true intelligence... it poses challenges to the reader,... and it truly creates amazement at the amount of work the writer had to do to scrutinize such a great amount of documents and the philological method here used is a razor with a very sharp blade.
This said, you shouldn't read this book if you look for style, for an easy read or for that great sense of poetry and destiny that the figure of Jefferson generally evokes as no other founding father.
The style in fact is poor, biography is reduced to mere facts that can help to understand Jefferson's political ideas and also the greater political debate around the new nation, the Enlightenment ideals and the revolution is narrowed to the theme considered (it is not even mentioned the famous letter about "whether one generation of men has a right to bind another").
I do not even agree on the conclusions of O'Brien about the threat to the American Civil Religion posed by the divorce of Jeffersonian ideas form the actual behaviour of the man. Jefferson was probably the most "European" of the revolutionary fathers, notwithstanding his denial (even more than Franklin): his ideas can be best explained on the light of the pre-romantic movement with all the emphasis on contrast between heart-purity-uncorrupted nature / mind-society-corruption , emphasis that bore more responsibility for this "divorce" of the ideal man (the Great Jefferson) from the actual man (the Jefferson slave owner and the cunning political man).
I have red a few books about Jefferson (from the excellent "American Sphinx" to "The Paris years of Th. Jefferson"), Franklin and Adams, and yet I feel that it is still lacking a balanced assessment of the great osmosis between the XVIII century European thought and the American Revolutionary debate... Not just the debt to the English and Scottish Enlightenment, but to the French late Enlightenment (thinkers like Condorcet, Rousseau and Voltaire, but also the great salons as that of mme du Deffand, the Masonic culture,...). Besides, if we have studies based on reports and letters left by American revolutionaries in Europe, no effort has been made to look after the assessment of contemporaries about them: the reports of the British embassy in London for example, but also testimonies about the debates in the "cafés" and "salons de te" (Jefferson was used to go to the same café - later? - frequented by Robespierre).
As you see, I enjoy the theme. If you have suggestion of further readings or if you don't agree with what I write, or if you just want to say hallo... feel free to write.
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