Notes: On buildings and drawings TJ saw or could have seen in Paris.

Reference: 3184

Notes: Introduction identifies Brown as a Virginian gone West who carried on a long correspondence with TJ; annotated.

Reference: 894

Notes: TJ's thoughts on democracy are based on his belief in personal liberty.

Reference: 2392

Reference: 897

Notes: Account of the composition of the Declaration.

Reference: 1867

Notes: The Communists' claim of TJ as progenitor is "brassy charlatanism."

Reference: 901

Notes: Abridged by the author from the version published in 1942.

Reference: 898

Notes: "The philosopher of freedom and happiness."

Reference: 896

Notes: Text in Chinese.

Reference: 899

Reference: 895

Notes: Reply by B. B. Baines, May 13, 1962. 4.

Reference: 900

Notes: Seventy page introduction to TJ's life and leading ideas about politics and society, followed by selected readings.

Reference: 2393

Notes: General survey of TJ's musical interests.

Reference: 3163

Notes: Succinct account of conditions leading up to the election and the 36 ballots required to elect TJ.

Reference: 1868

Notes: Contains "notes and correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the commissioners, and others relating to the founding, surveying, planning, designing, constructing, and administering of the City of Washington, 1783-18 18."

Reference: 3162

Notes: TJ by purchasing Louisiana helped checkmate Napoleon, thus taking part in a long history of Anglo-American cooperation to preserve liberty. A novel view.

Reference: 1869

Notes: Sketch of TJ as he was in 1776; minor.

Reference: 902

Reference: 903

Notes: TJ's university, the last product of his "comprehensive sweep of intellect," had an exemplary "spaciousness of design."

Reference: 3164

Notes: Brief biography, intended as part of a series to explain to Italian readers their new WWI ally, the US.

Reference: 904

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 905

Notes: Abstract of Vossler's Die Amerikanischen Revolutionsideale; see item #2055.

Reference: 2394

Notes: Analyzes TJ's attitudes to the Revolution while in France; suggests he moved from tepid support in 1789 to become the leading American sympathizer in 1793 because of his fundamental belief in liberty and equality, his recognition of the possibility of attaining the ideals of the revolution, and his understanding of the real political issues involved.

Reference: 1870

Notes: A "duo-biography" which focuses on the argument between TJ and Hamilton over the solution to the "federal problem," the correct balance between the demands of society and the rights of the individual.

Reference: 1871

Notes: Introductory biographical sketch and separate introductions to sections illustrating TJ's views on a wide variety of topics: economics religion, education, diplomacy, slavery, Indians, etc.

Reference: 2395

Reference: 907

Notes: "Two knowledgeable ghosts case modern America with incredulity and some feeling of regret."

Reference: 1872

Reference: 908

Notes: A lecture on TJ, never delivered. TJ "exhibited no spark of genius, nor any remarkable degree of original talent," but "His strength lay in his understanding the practical power." He was notable as a consistent opponent of slavery and as a believer in the common man.

Reference: 909

Notes: Reconciles TJ's political theories with "communism" if not necessarily with Marxism.

Reference: 2396

Notes: Surveys TJ's literary tastes, interest in prosody, his literary style; characterizes him as a utilitarian with a broad definition of usefulness and as a classicist.

Reference: 3165

Notes: Conventional survey.

Reference: 3166

Notes: Argues for the influence of the Scottish philosophers on TJ and his understanding of the moral sense theory.

Reference: 2398

Notes: TJ's faith in man's capability for self-government rested on his belief in the moral sense. DAI 36/03A, p. 1585.

Reference: 2397

Notes: "This continent has been supremely honored.... If Jefferson's political philosophy was right, then we are right."

Reference: 2399

Notes: Claims TJ was strongly influenced by the Physiocrats and that he was centrally "concerned about responsive government—that it should faithfully serve the majority will."

Reference: 2400

Reference: 906

Reference: 933

Notes: First of twenty-two installments later published in 1874 as The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Listed here in order of publication rather than alphabetically.

Reference: 910

Reference: 916

Reference: 911

Reference: 919

Reference: 917

Reference: 915

Reference: 913

Reference: 914

Reference: 920

Reference: 921

Reference: 912

Reference: 918

Reference: 930

Reference: 929

Reference: 922

Reference: 925

Reference: 927

Reference: 926

Reference: 928

Reference: 924

Reference: 923

Reference: 931

Notes: An apologetic biography, the most important to appear between Randall's and Morse's.

Reference: 932

Reference: 934

Notes: Suggests TJ attended meetings of the Buck Mountain Baptist Church near Monticello; not carefully researched.

Reference: 2401

Notes: Notes dilapidation of the tomb; also see pp. 13-28 on TJ and the University.

Reference: 935

Notes: Illustrated spread.

Reference: 937

Notes: Extensive survey of TJ and major contemporaries leads to the conclusion that at the Virginia bar TJ and John Marshall are most similar in their contributions to the law; TJ's contribution is greater in private law, Marshall's in public.

Reference: 1875

Notes: Competently examines TJ's changing opinions of judicial review in order to argue that he ultimately opposed making the Constitution "a blank paper by construction."

Reference: 1874

Notes: Survey of attitudes toward and opinions on the Constitution, arguing that he was "the most persistent advocate among the forefathers of the importance of a fundamental constitution," as well as being in favor of judicial review and of leaving power to amend in the hands of the people.

Reference: 1876

Notes: Contends TJ believed in "constitutional supremacy" in opposition to supremacy of the executive, legislative, or judiciary branches. This means opposition to centralization of power, strict construction, and the ultimate supremacy of the people over the Constitution, although TJ was no doctrinaire.

Reference: 1873

Notes: TJ treated throughout in an interesting account of the surveying and establishing of boundaries in the Northwest Territory; see especially "Jefferson's Plan for Western States" (15-36).

Reference: 1877

Notes: Extremely partisan account of parties in the U.S., repeating with undiminished enthusiasm old Federalist charges against TJ; see pp. 9-52.

Reference: 1878

Notes: TJ referred to throughout, but pp. 9-135 cover the years of his involvement with the University.

Reference: 3168

Notes: Description and history of Monticello; rpt. separately, n.p., n.d. pp. 14.

Reference: 938

Notes: TJ's main contribution was sending out the Lewis and Clark expedition Rpt. Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin. 3rd ser. 12(1919), 409-15.

Reference: 3169

Notes: Monticello then and now; printed under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

Reference: 939

Notes: Account of the Otoe Indian gift of a TJ letter to Princeton Univ. Library.

Reference: 940

Notes: Describes and quotes from letters by TJ and Adams commenting on a passage from Theognis of Megara on breeding.

Reference: 3170

Notes: TJ provoked by Federalist excesses into forming a party.

Reference: 1879

Notes: Surveys Franklin, Adams, and TJ, who was "unitarian, nationalistic moralistic, anticlerical, and anticonfessional."

Reference: 2402

Notes: TJ's presidency treated with focus on TJ himself, principally in terms of his diplomatic successes and failures (the Embargo).

Reference: 1880

Notes: Sketch rpt. in the author's Lives of Destiny. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. 18-23.

Reference: 941

Notes: Part of the campaign to acquire Monticello; a bit late.

Reference: 942

Notes: TJ had difficulties with Freneau's printer in regard to the size of his subscription.

Reference: 3172

Notes: Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.'s amusing account of his interview with TJ in 1824.

Reference: 944

Notes: Good brief account of the circumstances of TJ's Notes, both of composition and publication.

Reference: 3171

Notes: A thriller set at a meeting of Jefferson scholars at Monticello; much background given on TJ and various historians' interpretations of him.

Reference: 3177

Notes: History of TJ's grave marker and how the original ended up at the Univ. of Missouri.

Reference: 945

Notes: TJ's understanding and practice of bibliography; he was not a bibliographer in the modern sense. Also discusses research opportunities and the difficulties of making a Jefferson bibliography.

Reference: 3173

Notes: TJ's collecting interests in history, law, religion and science follow "the pattern of the average eighteenth-century Virginia gentleman of substance and position," but his wide range of interests and his collecting in the fields of Americana and philology show him to be "an innovator and a trailblazer."

Reference: 3174

Notes: Discusses Brown's letter of 25 December 1799, presenting a copy of probably, Wieland, and TJ's reply of January 15, 1800. One of the few times TJ ever spoke kindly of novels.

Reference: 3176

Notes: An important study but superceded by Sowerby and other works more readily available.

Reference: 3175

Notes: A lecturer on spiritualism praises TJ for freedom from secturianism.

Reference: 2403

Notes: Survey; rpt. American Architect and Building News. 47(January 19, 1895), 28-35.

Reference: 3178

Notes: Claims the people of Appalachian Virginia were "almost en masse" behind TJ in his fight for popular government, and "their devotion to human freedom helped to inspire his heart and nerve his mind for the mighty struggle." Doubtful.

Reference: 1881

Notes: On "The Origin and Development of the Jeffersonian Democracy" and "The Political Revolution of 1800" with little sense of TJ's motives or why his democracy was supposedly irresistible.

Reference: 1882

Notes: Brief discussion of TJ's stocking of the White House cellar and a recipe for "Mr. Jefferson's pannequaiques" (crepes) as prepared by his chef, Etienne Lemaire.

Reference: 3179

Notes: Comments on TJ's interest in encouraging viticulture in South Carolina; minor.

Reference: 3180

Notes: TJ said that scuppernong wine "would be distinguished on the best tables of Europe, for its fine aroma."

Reference: 3181

Notes: Recounts experiences in reconstructing Monticello gardens by following plans and information in TJ's Garden Book.

Reference: 3183

Notes: Prints a letter from each to the other, with minimal comment.

Reference: 947

Notes: Note on restoration of the gardens.

Reference: 3182

Notes: Gives a summary catalogue of all known Virginia mss. in TJ's collection; discusses provenance and documentary evidence.

Reference: 3185

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 948

Notes: Discusses the historical and biographical context of the Declaration, arguing that it "contains the essential ideas of American democracy." The subsequent chapter (147-75) exposits the philosophical background of the document, but doesn't link ideas to TJ.

Reference: 1883

Notes: TJ slandered by the clergy and the "top bourgeoisie."

Reference: 949

Notes: Biographical sketch of Martha and Maria.

Reference: 950

Notes: Sent by TJ to obtain professors for the University.

Reference: 3186

Reference: 3187

Notes: Numerous photographic illustrations, ca. 1899, of Monticello; descriptive text.

Reference: 951

Notes: Revised, expanded, and published as The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960)

Reference: 958

Notes: Analyzes the effect of the publication of the first collected edition of TJ's writings.

Reference: 957

Notes: Discusses Claude Bower's career as a promoter of TJ, the impact of his Jefferson and Hamilton, and FDR's use of the refurbished image of TJ for political purposes.

Reference: 954

Notes: The best study of TJ's reputation and influence, although since its focus is on the reputation, it tends to slight any genuine Jefferson influences in favor of studying the semi-magical invocations of TJ's name. An essential book. Extensive bibliography lists items invoking TJ's name or alluding to him which are too peripheral for listing here.

Reference: 959

Notes: Contends that a renewed "National Purpose" cannot be founded on old doctrines and symbols of the native political tradition but that Jeffersonian symbol and value are still important in preserving institutions of freedom and self government and in insisting on the moral accountability of actions in the National Interest.

Reference: 2408

Notes: "... the validity of Adams' interpretation of Jefferson hinges on the validity of his basic assumption: that he was a theorist and a doctrinaire." Nevertheless, Adams' work is a great example of the historian's art.

Reference: 955

Notes: Development of the idea of the consent of the governed; using Lincoln's phrase, argues that government of the people came first, by the people in the mid-19th century, for the people in the 20th century.

Reference: 2405

Notes: Mimeo typescript, "To be read at the Conference on Early American History, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 9, 1964." See the following item.

Reference: 1885

Notes: Argues that TJ's commercial policy as articulated in his Report on Commerce of 1793 "can only be appraised in the light of antecedent experience," and his ideal of free exchange and pacific intercourse among nations dominated his work and thought on national affairs from 1783-1793.

Reference: 1886

Notes: The best one volume biography.

Reference: 964

Reference: 961

Notes: A judicious, comprehensive, and well-balanced introduction to the life and achievements of TJ.

Reference: 956

Reference: 960

Notes: Tribute to TJ's defense of the personal, intellectual dimension of liberty and of its socio-economic and political dimensions.

Reference: 963

Notes: Taking on the question of what the Enlightenment means in America, suggestively examines TJ's reading of Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, and Beccaria, concluding that he resolved whig historicism and legalism into the rationalism and idealism of the Enlightenment.

Reference: 2407

Notes: An account of the long and sometimes troubled friendship of an enlightened Puritan and a man of the Enlightenment. Intended for a general audience, of interest to scholars.

Reference: 952

Notes: Adapted from the previous item.

Reference: 953

Notes: TJ's proposition that "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living" became after the French Revolution his rationale for sweeping social and political reform.

Reference: 2406

Reference: 962

Notes: Compares and contrasts the models of the American scholar offered by TJ, "the scholar as public man," and Emerson, an intellectual in "the modern sociological sense of self-conscious detachment and alienation from the surrounding society." Better on TJ than on Emerson.

Reference: 2404

Notes: TJ articulated "a series of Enlightenment directives for the intelligence of the new American republic."

Reference: 3188

Notes: Review essay of Cunninghsm's Process of Government under Jefferson and Johnstone's Jefferson and the Presidency claims the most tantalizing issue raised here concerns the relationship between personal style and the process of government.

Reference: 1884

Notes: Collection of eleven essays by various hands, all previously published.

Reference: 965

Notes: Tatham's letters to TJ from Norfolk subsequent to the Chesapeake Leopard affair of June 22, 1807.

Reference: 1887

Notes: An anti-New Deal TJ by a Democratic congressman who felt the New Deal of 1932 was "essentially Jeffersonian" but had moved away "to the principles of centralized government." Focus is on the New Deal, not TJ.

Reference: 966

Notes: TJ's real legacy is his conviction that old problems must be solved anew by each generation.

Reference: 3189

Notes: Account of ceremonies and the speeches of Claude G. Bowers and James M. Beck.

Reference: 967

Notes: Contends TJ fought unceasingly to undermine the federal republic, but he could not destroy America's Platonic tradition, "being revived today in the 1980 presidential campaign of Lyndon H. LaRouche."

Reference: 1888

Notes: TJ, "a muddled mischief-maker," is responsible for almost everything the author dislikes about the U.S.

Reference: 1889

Notes: Prints a letter of TJ's dated July 3, 1801, and uses it as text for a defense of freedom of speech and religious freedom.

Reference: 2409

Notes: A sketch of TJ's activities during this period and brief rhetorical analysis of A Summary View, the Declaration, and Notes.

Reference: 3190

Notes: Dufief had little to do with TJ, but Girardin carried on a somewhat interesting correspondence with him and played an active, if minor, part in the cultural life of his adapted country.

Reference: 968

Notes: Describes Pickerings vigorously unfl~ttering opinion of TJ and claims it is of value because, given its prejudices, it sees through "the garb of idealistic philosophy with which Jefferson clothed himself."

Reference: 969

Notes: Describes the effects of the Embargo on Salem, Mass. and gives a thorough going Federalist critique of TJ.

Reference: 1890

Notes: Describes a map of the Northwest Territory in 1785 showing names of possible states as given by TJ.

Reference: 1891

Notes: Minor note on useful plants and gardening.

Reference: 3191

Notes: Derivative discussion of TJ's nailery; argues that his apparent failure to manufacture nails on a commercial scale was a result of economic rather than technological factors.

Reference: 3196

Notes: Argues for TJ as an architectural innovator; "To be radically modern during these decades was not to invent but to transform," in part because of the limited options in technology. Important revaluation of TJ as architect.

Reference: 3192

Notes: Suggests TJ was more interested in keeping European "despotisms" out of America than in annexing Cuba.

Reference: 1892

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 3193

Notes: Memoirs of Edmund Bacon, overseer at Monticello from 1806 until 1822, and letters to him from TJ.

Reference: 970

Notes: Suggestive study; focuses on Monticello and the University.

Reference: 3194

Notes: TJ's design for the Univ. of Virginia shows a "practical educator seeking to give order and cohesiveness."

Reference: 3195

Reference: 972

Notes: Note on their stay there during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic; minor.

Reference: 973

Notes: Earlier edition in 1974, not seen. A note on sources for TJ's Manual of Parliamentary Practice and identification of the abbreviated citations.

Reference: 1893

Notes: Surveys TJ's activities to encourage education.

Reference: 3197

Notes: Historical background and account of the passage of the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom. Argues for the basis of the law in a view of natural law as independent of human legislation. TJ believed that society must be based on true moral principles. Rpt. separately, Washington: Catholic Univ. of America, 1943. pp. 51.

Reference: 2410

Notes: Critical account by a New Hampshire Federalist of dinners given by TJ and Madison for Anthony Merry, British minister.

Reference: 974

Notes: Contends TJ's guiding principle was respect for will of the people, despite wavering in the direction of more orthodox Whig "persona and property" doctrine to which Madison was closer.

Reference: 1894

Notes: Conventional sketch.

Reference: 1896

Notes: Claims TJ's moral universalism as expressed in the phrase "all men are created equal" was "a vulnerable instrument of revolutionary policy;" being too easy to take literally, it was later turned against itself.

Reference: 1895

Notes: "Despite the buffeting he had suffered at the hands of the press, Jefferson carried to his grave his deep-rooted belief in the necessity for freedom of expression in a democracy."

Reference: 1897

Notes: Well-researched account of James Ogilvie, who was a correspondent of TJ's and a "conveyor of ideas" between TJ and William Godwin.

Reference: 2411

Reference: 975

Notes: TJ's opinion of the evils of slavery quoted on pp. 25-41; Buchanan's oration was dedicated to TJ.

Reference: 2412

Notes: TJ not the author of the Ordinance of 1787, although in 1784 he did bring forward the anti-slavery provision in the act of 1784.

Reference: 1898

Reference: 3198

Notes: "The purpose of this hand-book is to bring Thomas Jefferson, the wisest exponent of true Democracy closer to the hearts of the people, whom he loved so well."

Reference: 976

Notes: Praises especially TJ's authorship of the Virginia act of religious toleration.

Reference: 977

Notes: Also New York: Liveright, 1936. pp. xi, 128. An attempt to establish the fundamental likenesses of TJ and Mussolini; a bit of Poundian special pleading that has convinced no one. American edition contains an additional letter from Pound.

Reference: 1899

Notes: Admittedly random notes discussing TJ in relation to the Mediterranean paideuma, money, Flaubert, etc. in support of the claim that TJ and Adams were civilized men in a civilized world. rpt. in Pound, Selected Prose, 1909-1965. New York: New Directions, 1973. 147-58, as "The Jefferson-Adams Letters as a Shrine and a Monument."

Reference: 978

Notes: TJ more than any other was the creator and organizer of our consular system; he concluded the consular convention with France and as Secretary of State set up the consular service which was recognized by the act of 1792.

Reference: 1900

Notes: The election of 1800 was a victory for the separation of church and state, thanks to TJ's rational religion.

Reference: 2414

Reference: 980

Notes: pp. 34-41 on TJ, Univ. of Virginia, and Monticello; he was "never so happy as when living the life of a landed gentleman."

Reference: 979

Notes: TJ a democratic model for young Americans, as opposed to Hamilton.

Reference: 981

Notes: TJ made the New England system of schools coherent; claims that "very soon these organized state systems will federalize at Washington in a great National University."

Reference: 3200

Notes: On the "money problem," the tariff, and civil service.

Reference: 1901

Notes: pp. 45-48 give a succinct account of TJ's handling of the patent office.

Reference: 1902

Notes: On Monticello.

Reference: 982

Notes: Contends TJ was the principal architect and stimulator of classicism in the young republic, a style revealing a kind of national self-consciousness.

Reference: 3201

Notes: TJ's letter of June 24, 1826 to Roger C. Weightman draws upon Richard Rumbold's dying speech quoted in Burnet's History of His Own Times.

Reference: 2416

Notes: Traces two strains of thought in TJ, "one theoretical or philosophical, the other more strictly legal."

Reference: 2415

Notes: Correspondence on matters paleontological; introduction and notes.

Reference: 3203

Notes: Focus is on historical background rather than on the Act or its passage per se.

Reference: 1903

Notes: Discusses the Commonplace Book as evidence of TJ's assiduous study of law and looks at his diplomatic work as an application of it.

Reference: 1904

Notes: TJ's "patronage policy during his first term was decisive as it was thoroughly partisan."

Reference: 1905

Notes: Note; minor.

Reference: 3204

Notes: TJ's contempt of Marshalrs opinions; claims that Marshalrs associate justices usually agreed with him.

Reference: 1906

Notes: Brief account of Marbury v. Madison and the Burr trial.

Reference: 1907

Notes: From 1769 on TJ was "progressively more democratic in his views."

Reference: 1908

Notes: Laudatory sketch.

Reference: 989

Notes: TJ named an executor, but he declined to serve.

Reference: 990

Notes: TJ took Mrs. Adams seriously as a knowledgeable and intelligent person, but he never regained the rapport with Abigail that he did with John.

Reference: 992

Notes: TJ's appreciation of French culture and love for her people did not blind him to the attractive aspects of 18th-century France; discusses his French associates.

Reference: 991

Notes: Although TJ's democratic principles made him sympathetic to the revolutionary movement, his reactions were more frequently governed by practical considerations pertaining to the welfare of the French people and the interests of the U.S. DAI 27/08A, p. 2485.

Reference: 1909

Notes: Competent survey.

Reference: 3206

Notes: Good account of TJ's influence on the Minas Gerais conspirators and of his meeting in Nimes with Jose Joaquim de Maia.

Reference: 1910

Notes: TJ as a student in a "field" school strikes a blow for public education.

Reference: 3207

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