Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691185279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21: Index, Vols. 1-20, will be forthcoming.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691185271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 605
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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21: Index, Vols. 1-20, will be forthcoming.
Author: Eugene R. Sheridan
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ISBN: 9780691046877
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 591
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Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691045348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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ISBN: 9780691046877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21: Index, Vols. 1-20, will be forthcoming.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691185360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 739
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As this volume opens, partisan politics in the United States are building to a crescendo with the approach of the presidential election. Working for a Republican victory, Jefferson consults frequently with Madison, Monroe, and others to achieve favorable results in state elections. He corresponds with controversial journalist James T. Callender. Sifting information from published rumors and private letters, he follows events in Europe, including Bonaparte's unexpected rise to power in France, and sees the value of his tobacco crop plummet as U.S. legislation cuts off the French market. Jefferson grows concerned at Federalist promotion of English common law in American jurisprudence and at proceedings in the Senate against William Duane, printer of the Philadelphia Aurora. Drawing heavily on British legislative practice, however, as well as advice from Virginia, he begins in earnest to compile a manual of parliamentary procedures for the Senate. As president of the American Philosophical Society, Jefferson calls for reform of the United States census. He publishes an appendix to Notes on the State of Virginia defending his account of the Mingo Indian Logan's legendary 1774 speech. And Jefferson consults Joseph Priestley and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours about the curriculum for a projected new university in Virginia. While continuing the reconstruction of Monticello, he mourns the death of the infant girl of his younger daughter, Mary Jefferson Eppes.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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ISBN: 9780691266145
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson The 533 documents in this volume include revealing material on Jefferson's health. He is limited to a liquid diet for weeks due to an abscess under his jaw. Although daily horseback rides take him "3. or 4. to 8. or 10. miles without fatigue," he cannot walk "further than my garden." He has lost only one tooth due to age and is glad not to need "teeth of porcelain." Due to debility, Jefferson's only serious occupation is the effort to open the University of Virginia. Francis W. Gilmer travels to Great Britain to recruit professors and buy "a library and apparatus." Jefferson is determined to hire only faculty of "the first grade of science." The Rotunda is still unfinished but fit for use "until funds may occur to compleat it." Jefferson predicts that a plan to send freed African Americans to Africa will fail. He observes that "barbarism" is in decline and "will in time I trust disappear from the earth." To another correspondent he defends "the principles which have guided my public life," but adds that, when altered circumstances make changes of principle beneficial, "then let such changes take place, and the means yield to the end."
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691090432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
