Democracy's muse : how Thomas Jefferson became an FDR liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party fanatic, all the while being dead /
Burstein, Andrew.
Democracy's muse : how Thomas Jefferson became an FDR liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party fanatic, all the while being dead / Andrew Burstein. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages : illustrations)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I. Political setting -- "Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny": nineteen forty-three -- "His mind liberal and accommodating": when John F. Kennedy dined in company -- "We confide in our own strength": the Reagan revolution(ary) -- "The boisterous ocean of political passions": Jefferson since William Jefferson Clinton -- Part II. Culture wars -- "Misery enough, but no poetry": race and the remaking of a symbol -- "Abortion to their hopes": Jefferson versus religious authority -- "History becomes fable": yesterday's future.
9780813937236
Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--History.--United States
Rhetoric--Political aspects--History.--United States
Political oratory--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
E332 / .D466 2015
Democracy's muse : how Thomas Jefferson became an FDR liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party fanatic, all the while being dead / Andrew Burstein. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages : illustrations)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I. Political setting -- "Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny": nineteen forty-three -- "His mind liberal and accommodating": when John F. Kennedy dined in company -- "We confide in our own strength": the Reagan revolution(ary) -- "The boisterous ocean of political passions": Jefferson since William Jefferson Clinton -- Part II. Culture wars -- "Misery enough, but no poetry": race and the remaking of a symbol -- "Abortion to their hopes": Jefferson versus religious authority -- "History becomes fable": yesterday's future.
9780813937236
Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--History.--United States
Rhetoric--Political aspects--History.--United States
Political oratory--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
E332 / .D466 2015