Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13 (April 2 O.S.), 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third (1801–1809) President of the United States, second (1797–1801) Vice President, first (1789–1795) United States Secretary of State, and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect, archaeologist, slaveowner, author, inventor, lawyer and founder of the University of Virginia.

Further reading

• Adams, Dickinson W., ed. Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983). All three of Jefferson's versions of the Gospels, with relevant correspondence about his religious opinions. Valuable introduction by Eugene Sheridan.
• Bear, Jr., James A., ed. Jefferson's Memorandum Books, 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1997). Jefferson's account books with records of daily expenses.
• Bernstein, R. B. Thomas Jefferson. (Oxford University Press, 2003) Excellent compact biography.
• Bernstein, R. B. Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of Ideas . (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Young-adult version of Bernstein's compact life.
• Betts, Edwin Morris and James A. Bear, Jr., The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1986). Correspondence of Jefferson with his children and grandchildren.
• Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1959). All the correspondence between Jefferson and John and Abigail Adams.
• Chinard, Gilbert, ed. The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1926). Jefferson's legal commonplace book.
• Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001). Pathbreaking study of honor culture and its relationship to the politics of Jefferson and his time.
• Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlittesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997; paperback ed., with new introduction, 1999). The leading study of this subject.
• Hartmann, Thomas. What Would Jefferson Do? (New York: Harmony Books, 2004).
• Hitchens, Christopher. Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (New York: HarperCollins, 2005). Challenging essay on Jefferson's life and its historical significance.
• Howell, Wilbur Samuel, ed. Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988). Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, written when he was vice-president, with other relevant papers.
• Lewis, Jan Ellen, and Onuf, Peter S., eds. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, Civic Culture. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999). Important symposium volume prompted by the reversal of the conventional wisdom concerning Jefferson's liaison with Sally Hemings and its meaning in American history.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time, 6 vols. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, various dates). The classic multi-volume biography of TJ by Dumas Malone.
• Mayer, David N. The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000). Notable monograph.
• Onuf, Peter S. Jefferson's Empire: The Languages of American Nationhood. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000). Excellent, challenging re-exmaination of Jefferson's political thought and his vision of American national development.
• Onuf, Peter S., ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. Important symposium volume, the product of a 250th birthday conference at the University of Virginia.
• Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (Oxford University Press, 1992).
• Shuffelton, Frank, ed. Notes on the State of Virginia (New York: Penguin, 1999). Edition of Jefferson's only published book, follows the 1787 Stockdale edition that was the basis for almost all nineteenth-century reprints. Places in the footnotes Jefferson's later revisions done in his personal copy.
• Sloan, Herbert J. Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; reprint ed., Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001). Pathbreaking study of the central place of debt in Jefferson's life and thought.
• Smith, James Morton, ed. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826, 3 vols. (New York: Norton, 1995).
• Wilson, Douglas L., ed. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1989).