Mr. Jefferson's University
By Garry Wills
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Garry Wills
Garry Wills is the author of 21 books, including the bestseller Lincoln at Gettysburg (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), John Wayne's America, Certain Trumpets, Under God, and Necessary Evil. A frequent contributor to many national publications, including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Review of Books, he is also an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I picked up this book just before I left Charlottesville in May. As prose goes, this is not a well written book. The fact-forward, clunky style is more appropriate to journalism final exams... and in dire need of an editor. His word choice is puzzling at times and sentences often end (and begin) abruptly, unconscious of narrative finesse.Yet in spite of its stylistic shortcomings, the book is easy to follow: that is, if you are familiar with UVA. I've been reading it on the bus to and from work, picking it up for 20-45 minutes at a time and setting it aside for the rest of the day. Wills attempts to reconstruct the building of UVA's "academical village" through Jefferson's perspective (his sources and citations primarily come from the letters of TJ and Joseph Cabell). I would stress the word "reconstruct" because Wills sees with the eyes of an architect. Furthermore, I should note that if you haven't been to UVA and familiarized yourself with the grounds, you may have trouble following his sinewy, structural descriptions. (Here is what I suggest. If you live in Charlottesville, or are planning to visit, take this book and read it as you walk around central grounds. There's little point in trying to read this unless you can easily visualize what Wills illustrates.)There is little in the way of elaboration, comment, or speculation. With the exception of a concise summary or platitude to serve as a segue, Wills rarely adds his own voice. The "whys" are most often supplied by Jefferson's words. If there is a particular aesthetic beauty in one of Jefferson's architectural choices, we know it through comparison, contemporary criticism, or justification, but rarely by way of Wills own voice.Which is a shame because he obviously loves C'ville and TJ. His specificity in regards to the masonry of each building of the Lawn & Range is enough to show his admiration. But I'm half-way through the book; I don't expect the status quo to change.