Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind - Thomas Jefferson''s Idea of a University

About the author

Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy is Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. His previous books include An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean and The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire, winner of the George Washington Book Prize.

Summary

Selected as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021Offers a twin biography of Thomas Jefferson in retirement and of the University of Virginia in its earliest years. Andrew O'Shaughnessy reveals how Jefferson's vision anticipated the modern university and profoundly influenced the development of American higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Edward L. Ayers, Howard Morhaim, Andrew J O'Shaughnessy, Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, Andrew J. Morhaim O''shaughnessy
• Assisted by: Howard Morhaim (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780813946481
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4648-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system