{"product_id":"the-paris-years-of-thomas-jefferson-9780300082616","title":"The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to Paris, where he spent the next five years as minister for the new United States of America. This book recreates the atmosphere and personalities of pre-revolutionary Paris, and reveals the impact they had on one of America's first transatlantic citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Adams has presented a superbly colourful portrait.\" Raymond Seitz, The London Times \"Elegantly sythesises the historical wisdom on Jefferson's tenure in Paris...Adams deftly illustrates both the scope and importance of the Parisian context in all its splendour.\" Linzy Brekke, Chicago Tribune \"In this wonderfully engaging book, Adams provides historians with a new and better context in which to reexamine Jefferson's role as a political partisan and ideological propagandist during the 1790s.\" C. Bradley Thompson, Journal of American History \"The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson intelligently explores the critical formative experience of that thought-filled, mild-mannered Virginian in the tumult of Paris society from 1784 to 1789. It takes the reader on an authoritative journey through the streets of the city and among the provocative characters in whose company the American diplomat thrived.\" Andrew Burstein, Virginia Quartely Review Auth biog: William Howard Adams is a fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies. A historian, writer, lecturer, and filmmaker, he was the curator of the National Gallery's exhibition The Eye of Thomas Jefferson and the editor of the catalogue of the same name.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767256056151,"sku":"9780300082616","price":38.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300082616.jpg?v=1758712696","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-paris-years-of-thomas-jefferson-9780300082616","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}