- Paperback: 65 pages
- Published: 9/1/04
- IBSN: 9781888451627
- e-IBSN: 9781617752193
- Genre: Nonfiction
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The Jefferson Bible
Visionary author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known “Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.
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Percival Everett’s novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent work, A History of the African-American People [Proposed] By Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid [A Novel], ruffled many Confederate feathers.
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Akashic Books announces a provocative series of books with early writings from United States presidents, starting with George Washington and moving chronologically forward in time. Each book will present an introduction by a talented and highly acclaimed contemporary writer. This series will be unlike any other presidential commentaries in print, and will be characterized by a critical viewpoint that will provide a counterbalance to the overly reverent and conservative analyses that invariably accompany presidential writings.
Visionary author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known “Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.
- Subjects: Nonfiction, Politics/Current Affairs
- Tags: Percival Everett, Thomas Jefferson, US Presidents series
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THOMAS JEFFERSON was the third president of the United States. He is the author of The Jefferson Bible and of the Declaration of Independence.
PERCIVAL EVERETT is the author of fifteen novels, among them The Water Cure, Erasure, and Glyph. He is the author of the poetry collection Abstraktion und Einfühlung, the coauthor of A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel), and provided annotations for Akashic’s publication of The Jefferson Bible. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.