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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Description

At different times Thomas Jefferson has been claimed by Southern secessionists and Northern abolitionists, New Deal liberals and neoconservatives Now historian Joseph J. Ellis restores our most elusive national icon to human dimensions with insight, sympathy, and superb style, shrewdly sifting the facts from the legends and the rumors. From the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Ellis unravels the contradictions of his character, giving us the slaveholding libertarian, the enemy of government power who exercised it audaciously as president; and the visionary who remained blind to his own inconsistencies. A marvel of scholarship and a delight to read, American Sphinx is a book whose appeal transcends history buffs and biography fans and provides an essential gloss on the Jeffersonian legacy.

Well timed to coincide with Ken Burns's documentary (on which the author served as a consultant), this new biography doesn't aim to displace the many massive tomes about America's third president that already weigh down bookshelves. Instead, as suggested by the subtitle--"The Character of Thomas Jefferson"--Ellis searches for the "living, breathing person" underneath the icon and tries to elucidate his actual beliefs. Jefferson's most ardent admirers may find this perspective too critical, but Ellis's portrait of a complex, sometimes devious man who both sought and abhorred power has the ring of truth.

Reviews

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-24
Summary: "Hilarious Left-Wing Tripe"

It is really no surprise upon genuflection that a modern academic of the disposition to unveil yet another interpretation of Jefferson would concoct a veiled left-wing screed intended to take the champion of American liberty down a few notches. But my apologizes to Ellis and other "oh-so-serious," utterly predictable, and tendentious sycophants of the state, you are not even in Jefferson's class as a political thinker.

While Jefferson helped inspire a revolution that outshines all others in world history, today's leftist intellectuals are destructive, spiteful, and deceptive creatures whose lasting achievements include extending the breadth and depth of tyranny throughout the world. Apparently lacking maturity of thought and the self-awareness to realize that a Jefferson and Madison completely and thoroughly predicted the disastrous implications of their anti-Enlightenment program, yet they proceed on, never looking back, never apologizing for the human misery and suffering they create, always blaming omnipotent phantasms such as "capitalism" for their failures.

Jefferson, were he alive today, would unleash brutal vivisections of the neofeudalist ideologies of the left that would make Ellis' laughable screeds look like the crayon scrawlings of a hyperactive five year old. This is what American Sphinx amounts to, when firmly fixing the clumsily veiled metanarrative in mind that state power is necessary for one's own good. While Ellis and his academic "colleagues" imply that Jefferson's ideas are as outdated as horse carriages and powdered wigs, I can only laugh at the writing of today's pretentious "intellectuals" when I compare their works side-by-side with those of Jefferson.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-01
Summary: "Good Study of Jefferson"

I like how Ellis approaches his subject--he centers his work on particular events, rather than sheer chronological biography. His research is nearly flawless. However, I find his approach to Jefferson (well, this is true of all modern Jeffersonian biographers) to be biased; he seems almost sarcastic at times, as though he is determined to topple the myth of Jefferson, the man of the people. We are dealing with a complex historical figure, who knew that he would be the topic of much spilled ink--think of what Jefferson did not include among his surviving correspondence. I believe Ellis makes every effort to withhold judgment--another strength of the book, as many biographers don't even try. (I'm thinking of Malone who seemed to worship Jefferson, even though his research and detail is nothing short of amazing.)Perhaps Ellis cannot avoid his impatience with the near deification of Jefferson, but there were times he needed to hold back on his dismissive tone.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-07-01
Summary: "Elegant and Informative"

This is an elegant, informative and well researched book. I've learned many things about Thomas Jefferson (for example: he didn't like public attention) and Mr. Ellis' analysis is certainly worth of praise.

The book is divided into five parts:
- Philadelphia: 1775 -76
- Paris: 1784-89
- Monticello: 1794 - 97
- Washington D.C.: 1801 - 04
- Monticello: 1816 - 26

As you can see, the book starts at the dawn of the American Revolution with Jefferson's arrival in Philadelphia as the delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress and follows him to his later years in Monticello.

While I highly recommend this book to any history fan, I'd just like to say that for me it was rather difficult to read. I don't know why as I love history and history books - maybe because the text seemed more like a lecture than a "story".

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-04-25
Summary: "Engaging but uninspired"

I'm trying to make this a critique of the book rather than of Jefferson.

First, I found this book hard to get into at first. I'm no slouch in the vocabulary department but I found myself overwhelmed with some of the word choice. Once I rid myself of outside distractions I was fine but this is definitely not a book to read while the kids are running around or the tv is on in the background. You might find yourself staring at the page, rereading sentences like "... he expressed frustration with the paralyzing combination of indolence and garrulousness that afflicted the Congress," over and over again.

I was surprised to read some of the reviews stating that this was not a favorable view of Jefferson. While Ellis did a god job of exposing the conflict of actions vs. ideals of Jefferson, I found his take on them to be too apologetic. It seemed as if this was one long book of excuses on how Jefferson was able to say one thing and do another. I understand that this was not intended to be a formal biography of the day to day life and events on Jefferson but Ellis skipped huge amounts of important areas. Jefferson's entire Vice Presidency was left out. His second term as president was mostly ignored with only brief mentions of some things. I would have liked to know Jefferson's reasoning and thoughts when he essentially quit the Vice Presidency and secretly helped establish partisan politics. I'd like to know his motivations behind the Embargo Act and his feelings on Aaron Burr and his scandals. I concluded that these events were left out because they were too unfavorable to Jefferson. I admit that I could be wrong and that there could have been very good reasons for leaving these out but I don't know what they could be.

I did find myself highly engaged in this book. I had internal debates over Jefferson's ideals versus what really happened then and what is happening now. If I could find someone to have actual conversations about this stuff with in my life, I'd be in heaven.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-15
Summary: "I am a Jeffersonian"

This book is wonderful; although, I would not recommend it as a first book on Jefferson. Much detail is left to the author's of other Jefferson biographies. This book focuses on certain periods.