Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects
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How Thomas Jefferson’s vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it—and why that matters more than ever
Peculiar Satisfaction examines how the ideals and contradictions of the nation’s founding live on in libraries, archives, and museums. Thomas Jefferson championed an informed citizenry as essential to democracy, yet the systems he built to organize knowledge reinforced racial and ideological hierarchies that persist today.
Melissa Adler explores Jefferson’s lasting influence on public institutions, from his personal library, which became the foundation of the Library of Congress, to his archival practices in government record-keeping and his museum at Monticello as a site of colonial knowledge production. Through an interdisciplinary lens, she reveals how his methods of classification and preservation shaped national memory and democratic participation.
Drawing from archival research and critical theory, Peculiar Satisfaction exposes the paradoxes of access, exclusion, and control embedded in information systems. As censorship and disinformation threaten democracy, Adler argues that understanding these foundational structures is essential to defending the role of knowledge in public life.
Offering a fresh perspective on the ways information, power, and race have shaped American institutions, this book will engage scholars and general readers interested in how libraries, archives, and museums influence history, democracy, and collective memory and argues for a nuanced understanding of these institutions at a critical moment where disinformation and authoritarian rule threaten to undo them.
Details
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Author
- Melissa Adler
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- Dec 2, 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9781531511937
- ISBN-10
- 1531511937
- Pages
- 352
- Carton quantity
- 20 copies
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