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We are very proud to have Dr. Kevin R. C. Gutzman on our auction!  He will personally authograph to you!  Published January, 2017, Hardcover!

"Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America"

"In this lively and clearly written book, Kevin Gutzman makes a compelling case for the broad range and radical ambitions of Thomas Jefferson's commitment to human equality." - Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804

Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he thought about the size and reach of government, which Americans who were full citizens and the role of education in the new country. In his new book, Kevin Gutzman gives readers a new view of Jefferson, a revolutionary who effected radical change in a growing country.

Jefferson’s philosophy about the size and power of the federal system almost completely undergirded the Jeffersonian Republican Party. His forceful advocacy of religious freedom was not far behind, as were attempts to incorporate Native Americans into American society. His establishment of the University of Virginia might be one of the most important markers of the man’s abilities and character.

He was not without flaws. While he argued for the assimilation of Native Americans into society, he did not assume the same for Africans being held in slavery while at the same time insisting that slavery should cease to exist. Many still accuse Jefferson of hypocrisy on the ground that he both held that “all men are created equal” and held men as slaves. Jefferson’s true character, though, is more complex than that as Kevin Gutzman shows in his new book about Jefferson, a revolutionary whose accomplishments went far beyond the drafting of the Declaration of Independence." 

The Author: 

"Kevin Gutzman, MPAff, JD, PhD, is the author of five books, including the just-published Thomas Jefferson--Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America, James Madison and the Making of America, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. He is Professor and Chairman in the Department of History at Western Connecticut State University, a faculty member at LibertyClassroom.com, and the host of the weekly "The Constitution Hour" on the Veritas Radio Network. Two of his books were book club main selections, another was a book club alternate selection, and two were best-sellers.

Gutzman has written essays for three edited collections and articles in The Journal of Southern History, the Journal of the Early Republic, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The Journal of the Historical Society, and the Review of Politics, among other scholarly journals, as well as reviews in all the leading history journals. His writing has appeared in numerous newspapers, including The National Post, Investors Business Daily, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, among others, and several popular magazines. He has appeared on national television broadcasts on CNN, C-SPAN, NewsMax TV, and Fox News, as well as on over 400 radio programs, including NPR's Backstory With the American History Guys, Janet Parshall In the Market, The Michael Medved Show, two programs on Air America, the John Gambling Show, the Curtis Sliwa Show, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, the Steve Deace Show, and The Kate Dalley Show, among many others. He is a featured expert in the documentaries John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman, Jurist and Nullification: The Rightful Remedy. He speaks frequently before popular and scholarly audiences."

Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair

Department of History & Non-Western Cultures

Western Connecticut State University

Author of, among others, Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America (St. Martin’s Press, 2017 (forthcoming));

James Madison and the Making of America (cloth, St. Martin’s Press 2012; pb, St. Martin’s Griffin 2013); and

Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840 (Lexington Books, 2007).

www.KevinGutzman.com

See his Web site, www.KevinGutzman.com, for more information.