The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1950-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691045348
V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0691187894
As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal commonplace book to document the legal, historical, and philosophical reading that helped shape his new role as a statesman. Indeed, he made entries in the notebook in preparation for his mission to France, as president of the United States, and near the end of his life. This authoritative volume is the first to contain the complete text of Jefferson’s notebook. With more than 900 entries on such thinkers as Beccaria, Montesquieu, and Lord Kames, Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book is a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of Jefferson’s searching mind. Jefferson’s abstracts of common law reports, most published here for the first time, indicate his deepening commitment to whig principles and his incisive understanding of the political underpinnings of the law. As his intellectual interests and political aspirations evolved, so too did the content and composition of his notetaking. Unlike the only previous edition of Jefferson’s notebook, published in 1926, this edition features a verified text of Jefferson’s entries and full annotation, including essential information on the authors and books he documents. In addition, the volume includes a substantial introduction that places Jefferson’s text in legal, historical, and biographical context.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2012-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 140084004X
Volume Eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815. Jefferson is overjoyed by American victories late in the War of 1812 and highly interested in the treaty negotiations that ultimately end the conflict. Following Congress's decision to purchase his library, he oversees the counting, packing, and transportation of his books to Washington. Jefferson uses most of the funds from the sale to pay old debts but spends some of the proceeds on new titles. He resigns from the presidency of the American Philosophical Society, revises draft chapters of Louis H. Girardin's history of Virginia, and advises William Wirt on revolutionary-era Stamp Act resolutions. Jefferson criticizes those who discuss politics from the pulpit, and he drafts a bill to transform the Albemarle Academy into Central College. Monticello visitors Francis W. Gilmer, Francis C. Gray, and George Ticknor describe the mountaintop and its inhabitants, and Gray's visit leads to an exchange with Jefferson about how many generations of white interbreeding it takes to clear Negro blood. Finally, although death takes his nephew Peter Carr and brother Randolph Jefferson, the marriage of his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph is a continuing source of great happiness. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691124892
V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 069115323X
V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691185336
This volume brings Jefferson into retirement after his tenure as Secretary of State and returns him to private life at Monticello. He professes his desire to be free of public responsibilities and live the life of a farmer, spending his time tending to his estates. Turning his attention to the improvement of his farms and finances, Jefferson surveys his fields, experiments with crop rotation, and establishes a nailery on Mulberry Row. He embarks upon an ambitious plan to renovate Monticello, a long-term task that will eventually transform his residence. Although Jefferson is distant from Philadelphia, the seat of the federal government, he is not completely divorced from the politics of the day. His friends, especially James Madison, with whom he exchanges almost sixty letters in the period covered by this volume, keep him fully informed about the efforts of Republican county and town meetings, the Virginia General Assembly, Congress, and the press to counter Federalist policies. An emerging Republican opposition is taking shape in response to the Jay Treaty, and Jefferson is keenly interested in its progress. Although in June, 1795, he claims to have "proscribed newspapers" from Monticello, in fact he never entirely cuts himself off from the world. At the end of that year, he takes pains to ensure that he will have two full sets of Benjamin Franklin Bache's Aurora, the influential Republican newspaper, one set to be held in Philadelphia for binding and one to be sent directly to Monticello.
Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 1998-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0375727469
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings; the enemy of government power who exercisdd it audaciously as president; the visionarty who remained curiously blind to the inconsistencies in his nature. American Sphinx is a marvel of scholarship, a delight to read, and an essential gloss on the Jeffersonian legacy.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0691203652
"The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is a projected 60-volume series containing not only the 18,000 letters written by Jefferson but also, in full or in summary, the more than 25,000 letters written to him. Including documents of historical significance as well as private notes not closely examined until their publication in the Papers, this series is an unmatched source of scholarship on the nation's third president."--Publisher description.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1950-1992 .
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.