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“Negro President”: Jefferson and the Slave Power

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In “Negro President” the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now in large part forgotten Timothy Pickering, and “prods readers to appreciate crucial aspects of our distressed but well-intentioned representative democracy” (Chicago Tribune).

In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves — slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the latest revisionist debate over Jefferson’s own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills as an alternative probes the heart of Jefferson’s presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern at the back of his most important policies and decisions.

In an eye-opening, ingeniously argued exposé, Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists’ dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy.

“Garry Wills is a thinker of first rate. He combines the vigor of the social critic with the depth of the historian, and to these he adds the even rarer gifts of the philosopher.” — New Republic

“A thorough political analysis of every other founding father’s involvement in slavery.” — San Francisco Chronicle

Garry Wills, a distinguished historian and critic, is the creator of a lot of books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, the most efficient-selling Why I Am a Catholic, and Henry Adams and the Making of The usa.

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