Herbert E. Sloan is Professor of History at Barnard College.
A masterful account of a key theme--debt--that runs through
Jefferson's private life and public career.... Sloan's expansive
exploration... stands out from all previous accounts.--Richard B.
Latner "American Historical Review"
In six well-conceived, impeccably researched chapters, ... Sloan
demonstrates that Jefferson was the consummate republican....
Sloan's conclusion, that Jefferson's views about debt were not
novel but rather bound him to his age and place, provides
perceptive insight for understanding the victory of liberal
capitalism over classical republicanism.--Gene A. Smith "Journal of
the Early Republic"
Principle and Interest is the most impressively original and
beguilingly stylish interpretation of Jefferson's ideological
obsessions since Winthrop Jordan's White over Black: American
Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. It does for the question of
debt what Jordan's pathbreaking book did for the question of race;
namely, send a shaft of light into the Jeffersonian abyss that not
only illuminates one important region of former darkness, but also
sets off lights in a whole series of adjoining areas.--Joseph J.
Ellis "Reviews in American History"
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