Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the southern parts of France and Northern Italy, in the year 1787
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Thomas Jefferson has 1390 books on Goodreads with 52737 ratings. Thomas Jefferson’s most popular book is The Declaration of Independence.
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson- The Portable Thomas Jefferson
- The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
- The Memoir of Thomas Jefferson
- The Words of Thomas Jefferson
- The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
- The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)
- Letters of Thomas Jefferson
- Jefferson and His Time, by Dumas Malone. This classic biography of Thomas Jefferson, written by one of the most renowned Jefferson scholars, was published in six volumes over 33 years.
- American Sphinx (1996), by Joseph J. Ellis. National Book Award winner Joseph J. Ellis’ newest book, First Family, takes on the relationship between Abigail and John Adams.
- Twilight at Monticello (2008), by Alan Pell Crawford. Alan Pell Crawford, a former political speechwriter and Congressional press secretary who now covers history and politics, pored over archives across the country, at one point holding a residential fellowship at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, to research this book.
- The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960), by Merrill D. Peterson. “The most important thing in my education was my dissertation,” said Merrill D. Peterson in 2005, about his time studying at Harvard in the late 1940s.
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail.
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack.
- American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis. For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight – and not only during his active political career.
- Jefferson and Hamilton by John Ferling. The decade of the 1790s has been called the “age of passion.” Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic – each side convinced that the other’s goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won.
Oct 29, 2013 · #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before” (Entertainment Weekly) “Probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. Wood A ...
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Jun 21, 2021 · Best books on Thomas Jefferson recommended by historian Andrew Burstein. His life as politician, president and slaveowner all covered.
Jefferson read in French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon, and collected books in their original languages. He organized these books according to Francis Bacon's divisions of knowledge, a system that was later adopted by the Library of Congress.
Apr 25, 2017 · In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker -- as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet.
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