Thomas Jefferson

  • Thomas Jefferson
    By R. B. Bernstein

    A short biography of Thomas Jefferson covers such topics as his life as a Virginia gentleman, his passionate belief in democracy, his defense of slavery, his relationship with Sally Hemings, and his contributions to America as a writer, ...

  • Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of Ideas
    By R. B. Bernstein

    The Revolution of Ideas R. B. Bernstein. would be political suicide. He was a difficult man, ready to pick quarrels even with friends; his foes scoffed at him as a man beneath them, goading him into spectacular rages.

  • Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire
    By Lawrence S. Kaplan

    This text explores how the concept of the United States' westward expansion worked as the moving force in forming Jefferson's judgments and actions in foreign relations.

  • Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty
    By Joseph J. Ellis

    Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty

  • Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets
    By William G. Hyland Jr

    Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets is a new and unprecedented examination of the 'intimate' Thomas Jefferson--from his return to Monticello after two terms as president until his death.

  • Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher and Politician
    By John P. Kaminski

    Certainly Thomas Jefferson is among this group - some would argue that only he and Benjamin Franklin fall into this category . Among his many accomplishments , Jefferson was a statesman , parliamentarian , codifier of laws , antiquarian ...

  • Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
    By Thomas S. Kidd

    In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson's ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson's idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his ...

  • Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim : the Presidency, the Founding of the University, and the Private Battle
    By Alf J. Mapp

    ... 349 97 , 171 Randolph , Benjamin Franklin , 193 Pinckney , Thomas , 9 Randolph , Edmund , 41 , 132 , 170 Pinkney ... Richmond , 33 United States in Maintaining the Regan , Ronald , 8 Public Right Against the Intrusion Remedy of Love ...

  • Thomas Jefferson
    By R. B. Bernstein

    A short biography of Thomas Jefferson covers such topics as his life as a Virginia gentleman, his passionate belief in democracy, his defense of slavery, his relationship with Sally Hemings, and his contributions to America as a writer, ...

  • Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography
    By Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

  • Thomas Jefferson: A Day at Monticello
    By Elizabeth V. Chew, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation

    A Day at Monticello Elizabeth V. Chew, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation. For. Marion. and. Alexander. —E.C.. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chew, Elizabeth V., 1963– ThomasJefferson: A Day at Monticello / by Elizabeth ...

  • Thomas Jefferson: Moralist
    By M. Andrew Holowchak

    M. Andrew Holowchak. MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 194–95; and Conor Cruise O'Brien, “Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist,” Atlantic Monthly, October 1996, 53–74. 24. TJ to John Adams, 11 Apr. 1823. 25. TJ to Miles King, ...

  • Thomas Jefferson: Psychobiography of an American Lion
    By M. Andrew Holowchak

    The sort of assessment Holowchak aims to do in this book is both historical and psychological, so the book is in large measure a psy-chobiography.

  • Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Freedom
    By Rita T. Mullin

    It was gossiped that he had lost his family fortune gambling , but Jefferson considered him to be “ the ablest man who had ever filled that office . ” During those dinner conversations , Jefferson later remembered , he heard “ more good ...

  • Thomas Jefferson
    By Gillian Gosman

    Introduces the life and accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.

  • Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy
    By Francis D. Cogliano

    18, quotations 376, 380; Donald J. Greene, ed., Samuel Johnson: Political Writings (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 454. Also see Jack P. Greene, All Men are Created Equal: Some Reflection on the Character of the American ...

  • Thomas Jefferson
    By John Lee, Susan Lee

    A biography of the Virginian who was noted as a statesman, inventor, and author of the Declaration of Independence.

  • Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
    By Christopher Hitchens

    In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father.

  • Thomas Jefferson: Inquiry History for Daring Delvers
    By Esther Franklin

    Have we Questers contemplated the ways in which we—at least a good number of us—have learned history in the past, ... we also should be aware of two other works; one is Molding the Good Citizen by Robert Lerner, Althea Nagai, ...

  • Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
    By Christopher Hitchens

    In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father—a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of ...