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- 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
- "His Chosen Companions"
- Jefferson's Interests
- Jefferson's Libraries
- Jefferson's Writings
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Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter Ellen Wayles Randolph recalled: "Books were at all times his chosen companions." Jefferson himself described his appetite for reading as "canine," and he surrounded himself with books, storing them in various rooms so that at any moment -- such as when waiting for guests to arrive for dinner -- he could read.
The wide variety of Jefferson's interests is revealed in his book collections, covering the "visions of antiquity," "everything which related to America," and "whatever was rare and valuable in every science." Jefferson read in French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon, and collected books in their original languages. He organized the...
Jefferson collected three libraries in his lifetime. He started the first in his youth, but it was destroyed when his mother's home, Shadwell, burned in 1770. The second, and largest, of his collections was comprised of some 6,500 books, and in 1814 he sold it to the United States government. This set of books formed the nucleus of the Library of C...
Jefferson wrote only one full-length book, Notes on the State of Virginia, first published in 1787, which was a collection of his observations about the natural, animal, and human characteristics of his native land. Jefferson also wrote a brief autobiography, which begins: "At the age of 77, I begin to make some memoranda, and state some recollecti...
Learn about Thomas Jefferson's passion for reading and writing, and his three libraries that shaped the Library of Congress. Find out about his only full-length book, Notes on the State of Virginia, and his autobiography and gospel extracts.
- 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.
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Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 [b] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
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Feb 23, 2021 · Thomas Jefferson writes his last will and testament. He leaves some 1,600 books to the University of Virginia and to his grandsons-in-law, Joseph Coolidge and Nicholas P. Trist. His Poplar Forest library is left to his grandson Francis Eppes. July 4, 1826. Thomas Jefferson dies at Monticello. October 7, 1826.
