Thomas Jefferson has long intrigued scholars. He was a man of wide interests who wrote extensively on many subjects; hence, there is ample material of his intellectual pursuits to engage a researcher.
Imaginative yet procise, this tucid work explores the permanent and changing meanings of one of the fundamental themes of political philosophy-the idea of equality. Its is a study of the history of an idea from its emergence as a practical edeal of intellectual speculation to recent times, when political philosophy is all but eclipsed try popular ideology and social science