Introductory Post
This is my introductory post and is separate from the following five posts in which I will analyze that book I read. Here, I will give a brief description of the book that I read for the outside reading project and will describe how I plan to analyze it according to the question that we are studying.
I read the book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham. It is a biography of our Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. The book describes and analyzes the life of Jefferson, a man remembered today for intellect and an appetite for learning, his skill with the pen in writing a numerous famous works such as the Declaration of Independence, and for his tenures in a number of important leadership positions, especially as the third President of the United States. The book makes clear distinctions between Jefferson’s personal and political life, yet masterfully combines these aspects to holistically portray Jefferson as both a man and as an American legend. In this manner, I believed that the book provided an excellent illustration of the Thomas Jefferson and allowed me to thoroughly understand his persona and his character. By including a number of primary sources, John Meacham, in this work, further provides a first-hand understanding of how Thomas Jefferson and his society impacted each other over the course of Jefferson’s life.
In this assignment, I am studying how Thomas Jefferson influenced and impacted his American society in regards to his achievements in politics, science, architecture, and a number of other intellectual fields of his interest. As John Meacham has divided Jefferson’s life according to different periods on his life, I too will study Jefferson’s achievements according to a similar approach. I have divided Jefferson’s life in to five sections that include: his youth and education, his entry and rise in the field of politics, his early presence in the national political arena, the years of his presidency, and his life afterwards. By using examples from Meacham’s text and studying Thomas Jefferson according to this approach, I believe that we can truly understand how Jefferson, over the course of his life, impacted attitudes toward the sciences in his/our society.
This is my introductory post and is separate from the following five posts in which I will analyze that book I read. Here, I will give a brief description of the book that I read for the outside reading project and will describe how I plan to analyze it according to the question that we are studying.
I read the book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham. It is a biography of our Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. The book describes and analyzes the life of Jefferson, a man remembered today for intellect and an appetite for learning, his skill with the pen in writing a numerous famous works such as the Declaration of Independence, and for his tenures in a number of important leadership positions, especially as the third President of the United States. The book makes clear distinctions between Jefferson’s personal and political life, yet masterfully combines these aspects to holistically portray Jefferson as both a man and as an American legend. In this manner, I believed that the book provided an excellent illustration of the Thomas Jefferson and allowed me to thoroughly understand his persona and his character. By including a number of primary sources, John Meacham, in this work, further provides a first-hand understanding of how Thomas Jefferson and his society impacted each other over the course of Jefferson’s life.
In this assignment, I am studying how Thomas Jefferson influenced and impacted his American society in regards to his achievements in politics, science, architecture, and a number of other intellectual fields of his interest. As John Meacham has divided Jefferson’s life according to different periods on his life, I too will study Jefferson’s achievements according to a similar approach. I have divided Jefferson’s life in to five sections that include: his youth and education, his entry and rise in the field of politics, his early presence in the national political arena, the years of his presidency, and his life afterwards. By using examples from Meacham’s text and studying Thomas Jefferson according to this approach, I believe that we can truly understand how Jefferson, over the course of his life, impacted attitudes toward the sciences in his/our society.
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