Product Description: This volume in the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson contains the two important parliamentary documents he prepared during his lifelong study of the subject. Jefferson compiled the first document, called the Parliamentary Pocket-Book," while he was president of the Senate by virtue of his position as Vice- President of the United States...read more

Product Description: Book by Jefferson, Thomas, Gilreath, James, Wilson, Douglas L.

Product Description: This work is a new edition of Thomas Jefferson's literary commonplace book, a notebook of his literary and philosophical reading. Unlike the only previous edition, published in 1928, it contains full annotation, pertinent information on the authors and works commonplaced, and a rationale for dating the entries...read more

Selections from Jefferson's letters share his opinions on exploration, democracy, farming, independence, science, education, books, family, and religious freedom

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Gathers Jefferson's autobiography, selections from his writings on the history of Virginia, travel, and language, and selected letters

Product Description: Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia is widely hailed as a masterpiece. It is his greatest architectural accomplishment, the summation of his quest for intellectual freedom. The story of the University encompasses the political and architectural worlds as Jefferson struggled against great opposition to establish a new type of educational institution...read more

Product Description: Thomas Jefferson's greatest impact on society came from his involvement in politics--as a writer and thinker, and as governor, congressman, ambassador, cabinet member, vice-president, and president. In this volume, editor Merrill D...read more

Product Description: A beautifully produced collection of quotations from Jefferson's own private correspondence to family and friends.

Product Description: This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses. After welcoming Genet's arrival as the harbinger of closer relations between the American and French republics, Jefferson becomes increasingly distressed by the French minister's defiance of the Washington administration's ban on the outfitting of French privateers in American ports, the enlistment of American citizens in French service, and the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction by French consuls in American ports...read more

Product Description: Mass Market Paperback: 64 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (July 1, 1995) Language: English

Product Description: This delightful collection of quotes from Jefferson establishes, beyond dispute, his enormous contributions to rationalism, freethought and science. Often, what historians (and especially politicians) have done is to select those quotes that reflect conventional religiosity and beliefs...read more

A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships and the contributions of Sacajawea

Product Description: Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable curiosity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The manuscript account of the arguments in the case of Bolling v Bolling, chiefly in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, has been published for the first time in this book. The manuscript, which is now in the collection of the Henry E Huntington Library, contains the most complete known account of arguments submitted to an American colonial court...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. A PART OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SERIES FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHS AND PAINTINGS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES, EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, AND EVEN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES FROM THE TIME.