Thomas Jefferson and His Younger Brother: A Study in Cosmopolitanism and Parochialism
Sep 2025 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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One of the topics overlooked by Jeffersonian scholars is Jefferson's younger brother Randolph. Why? Most deem that relationship of little consequence in Jefferson's life or of little influence in the development of his "Enlightened" thinking. While Thomas Jefferson was keenly interested in the events of the world and polymathic in understanding (i.e., robustly cosmopolitan), Randolph Jefferson cared little about global events and constantly required the assistance of his older brother to manage his plantation at Snowden (i.e., dimly parochial and perhaps mentally challenged). This book is a complete collection of the correspondence, with critical commentary, between the brothers Jefferson. That correspondence, when put under the author's analytic microscope, reveals some stark disclosures about Thomas Jefferson, family man.
About the author
M. Andrew Holowchak, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and history, who taught at institutions such as University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, and Rutgers University, Camden, all USA. He is author/editor of over 70 books and over 400 published essays, formal and informal, on topics such as ethics, ancient philosophy, science, psychoanalysis, and critical thinking. His current research is on Thomas Jefferson—he is acknowledged by many scholars to be the world’s foremost authority—and has published nearly 400 essays, formal and informal, and 28 books on Thomas Jefferson. He also writes on Ukraine. He has authored Whisk of the Red Broom: Stalin and the Ukraine, 1928–1933, Michael Chemny: Expatriated Ukrainian Patriot, and The Oath.
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