Books written by Merrill D. Peterson

Jefferson Memorial: An Essay

Describes the Jefferson Memorial. Includes a biography of Thomas Jefferson.
The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker

Traveling in the president's party were his daughter Margaret, a talented singer; Dr. Cary Grayson, honored with the title Rear Admiral; Mrs. Wilson's social secretary, Edith Benham; "Ike" Hoover, the White House's head usher; ...
Writings

The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published.
Jefferson, Thomas

Jefferson, Thomas
"Starving Armenians": America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After

See also Riggs's typescript , " History of the Mission to Turkey , 1910-1942 , " ABC 88 . 13. Riggs , Days of Tragedy , 90-93 ; Davis , Slaughterhouse Province , 54-57 . 14. Quoted in United States Official Documents on the Armenian ...
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography

As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and Jefferson's powerful role in shaping America, he simultaneously tells the story of nation coming into being.
The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun

A. S. Salley, Jr., The Calhoun Family of South Carolina, (n.p., n.d.); Intro., The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Clyde N. Wilson, ed. (Columbia, S.C., 1981), XIV; Ernest M. Lander, Jr., The Calhoun Family and Thomas Green Clemson (Columbia ...
John Brown: The Legend Revisited

Peterson gives readers John Brown in his own day, but he also shows how the flaming abolitionist warrior's image--celebrated in art, literature, and journalism--has helped him shed some of his infamy to become a symbol of American idealism ...
Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833

Dominated by the personalities of three towering figures of the nation's middle period -- Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and President Andrew Jackson -- Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 tells of the political and rhetorical ...
Lincoln in American Memory

In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present.
John Brown: The Legend Revisited

A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve tempered by a childhood on the Ohio frontier, John Brown advocated arming fugitive slaves to fight for their freedom, an idea that impressed...
The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun

At once a sweeping narrative and a penetrating study of non-presidential leadership, this book offers an indelible picture of this conservative era in which statesmen viewed the preservation of the legacy of free government inherited from ...
The Jefferson Image in the American Mind

Koch's Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson ( N.Y. , 1943 ) makes clear the larger importance of comprehending Jefferson's acquisition and management of books . William B. O'Neal is the editor of Jefferson's Fine Arts Library for the ...
Lincoln in American Memory

In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present.
Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue

James Madison to TJ , 13 May 1798 , in Letters and Other Writings of James Madison , 4 vols . ( Washington , D.C. , 1894 ) , II , 140 . 36. Adams , ed . , Addresses , Works , IX , 187 . 37. JA to TJ , 30 June 1813 , Cappon , ed .
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography

As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and Jefferson's powerful role in shaping America, he simultaneously tells the story of nation coming into being.
Thomas Jefferson: And the New Nation - to the Vice Presidency

Thomas Jefferson: And the New Nation - to the Vice Presidency
Coming of Age with the New Republic, 1938-1950

"Peterson weaves together the fresh reading, the history of the country during the 1940s, and his own personal history to give us the heart of the book.
Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography

Twenty-five essays discuss Jefferson's accomplishments as a statesman, diplomat, scientist, architect, farmer, and politician.
Visitors to Monticello

During the lifetime of Thomas Jefferson, through its days of vandalism and neglect, and to its final restoration, Monticello, the historic home of Jefferson, has lured thousands of visitors.