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Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) Hardcover – August 15, 1984
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At the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson’s writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras.
This book is the most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. It contains such famous works as "Autobiography" and "Notes on the State of Virginia." A series of addresses, 287 letters, and public and private writings—including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence—round out the collection, painting not only a portrait of the early days of America but of one of the most influential and controversial figures in our nation's history.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
- Print length1600 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLibrary of America
- Publication dateAugust 15, 1984
- Dimensions5.2 x 1.9 x 8.2 inches
- ISBN-109780940450165
- ISBN-13978-0940450165
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Merrill D. Peterson (1921-2009) was professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, and Lincoln in American Memory.
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- ASIN : 094045016X
- Publisher : Library of America (August 15, 1984)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 1600 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780940450165
- ISBN-13 : 978-0940450165
- Item Weight : 2.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.2 x 1.9 x 8.2 inches
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Thomas Jefferson 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

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"I returned from that mission in the 1st. year of the new government, having landed in Virginia in Dec. 89. & proceeded to N. York in March 90. to enter on the office of Secretary of State. Here certainly I found a state of things which, of all I had ever contemplated, I the least expected. I had left France in the first year of its revolution, in the fervor of natural rights, and zeal for reformation. My conscientious devotion to these rights could not be heightened, but it had been aroused and excited by daily exercise. The President received me cordially, and my Colleagues & the circle of principal citizens, apparently, with welcome. The courtesies of dinner parties given me as a stranger newly arrived among them, placed me at once in their familiar society. But I cannot describe the wonder and mortification with which the table conversations filled me. Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly, over republican, government, was evidently the favorite sentiment. An apostate I could not be; nor yet a hypocrite: and I found myself, for the most part, the only advocate on the republican side of the question, unless, among the guests, there chanced to be some member of that party from the legislative Houses."
Jefferson, Thomas. Jefferson: Writings (Library of America) (Kindle Locations 10397-10406). Library of America. Kindle Edition.
In my opinion, this book should be mandatory reading in classrooms throughout the country if not the world, and we should pressure the Library of Congress (Congress), the University of Virginia, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the more than 900 different repositories to digitize and make available to the general public every word of Jefferson's writings, because I believe there are a lot of things our government is suppressing. For example, I guarantee he had more to say about Judicial Review, Washington's administration, and the Second Amendment than we have access to. The repositories I mentioned have the largest collections, and I recommend everyone write them to compel them to make available all of Jefferson's works. When you rank the books from the Library of Congress on Amazon, Jefferson is not among the first pages and that is astounding to me. This book is so important I have it both on Kindle and hardcover in my library.
I was looking for a top notch reference on TJ , and you don't get much better than the man's own words.
Great quality paper with thin cover (disappointingly thin).
Do yourself a favor and get this first over the biographies.
February 15, 1791
page # 416
is the book. Fast delivery as well.






