Reference: 1.

Notes: Listed as # 2574 in TJCAB . Surveys the range of TJ's scientific interests; see the author's 1990 scientific biography of TJ, listed below, for his fullest statement on this subject.

Reference: 2.

Notes: Listed as # 111 in TJCAB. Pursues the history of TJ's lap desk and in the course of the discussion covers the occasion of the writing of the Declaration, the house in Philadelphia where he wrote it, the subsequent history of the desk up to its donation to the nation, and the manufacture and dispersal of several facsimile desks (which have sometimes been mistaken for the original). Illustrations of the desk, the Graff house in which TJ wrote the decoration, and of ancillary correspondence add to the value of this delightfully antiquarian study.

Reference: 3.

Notes: Listed as # 2724 in TJCAB . Records and analyzes likenesses of TJ made for public consumption during his presidency. The many popular likenesses which were widely distributed reflect interest in TJ and in the office of the presidency, and they also display the state of the arts in the early republic. Covers engravings, pictures on ceramics, cloth, etc., caricatures. Informative.

Reference: 4.

Notes: Listed as # 328 in TJCAB . The most extensive of the various replies to the resurrection of the Callender scandals by Fawn Brodie and others. It undercuts its own case, however, by its extreme defensiveness and exaggerated tone and by treating a fiction such as Barbara Chase-Riboud's novel as a serious threat to TJ's historical reputation. More effective replies have been made by scholars such as Douglas Adair and others to those giving credence to a TJ-Sally Hemings affair.

Reference: 5.

Notes: The Jeffersonian founding sketchily covered in the first eight pages, the rest of the volume a more or less anecdotal history of the later University with little attention to the issue of the success or failure of TJ's original vision. Disappointing. See the 1983 essay by John S. Whitehead listed below.

Reference: 6.

Notes: Claims TJ advocated dissent for specific reasons and under carefully defined conditions in the pursuit of carefully defined goals. Dissent for him was less an isolated act than an attitude, a process which could correct a wayward, insensitive government on the one hand and encourage a society of free, politically articulate and self-governing men. Argues that TJ presents a seminal theory of truly democratic dissent, a new philosophical and political blending of theory with the pragmatic requirements of egalitarian government.

Reference: 7.

Notes: Discusses Jefferson's long-standing interest in the West, particularly the trans-Mississippi West, the recorded knowledge available to him, his support of exploring parties, and his plans for settlement and development. Chapters on Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, and the Red River explorations of William Dunbar and Thomas Freeman. Examines dealings with the Sac and Fox Indians as a case study representative of TJ's Indian policy as a whole and his determination that the Louisiana Purchase would be used for resettlement of tribes east of the Mississippi. Contends that for all presidents from TJ through Jackson the results of Indian policy were the same although details and degree of compassion differed; the government caved in first to pressure from settlers and land speculators, then the Indians. Concludes that in western matters as in many others TJ was not so much an innovator as a reactor, "at his finest when responding brilliantly to unexpected events, Mackenzie's startling voyage across Canada, or Napoleon's thunderbolt offer to sell Louisiana." Listed as # 2916 in TJCAB

Reference: 8.

Notes: Brief introduction by John M. Lindsey notes the significance of this book, originally published in 1829, focusing particularly on TJ's appendix on "Whether Christianity is a part of the Common Law?"

Reference: 9.

Notes: Selection of "Gems from Jefferson," topically arranged. Introduction and brief commentary. A useful volume for speechwriters in search of sound bites.

Reference: 10.

Notes: The final volume of Malone's definitive, six volume biography of TJ. Covers the years from 1809 and TJ's retirement from the presidency through his death in 1826. Notable for its treatment of the private life of TJ in retirement, the matter of the Batture Controversy which dragged on after he left the White House, the sale of his library to the nation, and his labors to establish the University of Virginia, his responses to the Missouri Compromise and the new set of political questions that emerged after the War of 1812, and his troubled financial situation of his last years. Marked by Malone's usual high standards of scholarship, and by a balance and judgment that had seemed threatened at times by defensiveness in some of the earlier volumes. Listed as # 763 in TJCAB

Reference: 11.

Notes: An interview between Malone and Freudenberg conducted shortly after Malone had published the final volume of his Jefferson and His Time . Discusses the beginnings of Malone's interest in TJ, his biographical methods and principles, and his assessment of TJ's character.

Reference: 12.

Notes: Contends that, partly in response to his awareness of the economic and political inequality of Europe, TJ argues for the right of every individual not to be denied access to the means of labor. Because he conceives of man as dynamic, evolving being who is naturally both social and moral, he consciously attempts to construct a political system, eg. his ward republics, that will allow for maximum citizen participation. TJ is qualitatively different from Madison and presents the outlines for a democratic-socialistic alternative to the present market ideology. Published in revised version as The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson (1984), for which see below.

Reference: 13.

Notes: Expanded edition of earlier title (see # 810 in TJCAB ) containing letters exchanged between TJ and his brother Randolph and description of their relationship by Mayo; useful additions by James A. Bear, Jr.

Reference: 14.

Notes: Independence Day Address, July 4, 1981. Celebrating "the miracle of American citizenship" at the traditional naturalization ceremonies held at Monticello. Argues that for TJ the right of all persons to choose their own citizenship was an essential meaning of the American Revolution. Links this belief to his allegiance to principles of "constituent sovereignty." Notes his inclusion of the right of expatriation in his proposed laws for Virginia and also his mistake in excluding some from possible citizenship because of race.

Reference: 15.

Notes: Finds TJ and the other presidents shared many beliefs while disagreeing on some aspects of higher education. Concludes that higher education today serves the purpose of educating a democratic citizenry which these men envisioned, although the educational problems they faced still persist to some extent. Standard facts and no ground-breaking opinions.

Reference: 16.

Notes: Focuses on the structure of the book, arguing that it reveals the political motives behind the composition. TJ considered the political implications of nature and human nature in their universal aspect and their particular American manifestations. His vision of an enlightened republic was paradoxically related to an understanding of the Enlightenment as presented by Locke and to an understanding of republicanism as presented by Montesquieu.

Reference: 17.

Notes: Introduction by Frederick D. Nichols; on TJ's original concept, Stanford White's reconstruction, and the modern restoration. Generously illustrated. Previously cited, TJCAB , # 3373.

Reference: 18.

Notes: Describes the building of Monticello, influenced architecturally by "Andrew Palladio," Roman antiquities, and French domestic architecture. Nothing new.

Reference: 19.

Notes: Discusses the growth of American agriculture in the early national period and situates TJ's espousal of natural rights and limited government in the context of the favorable prospects during this period for family farms, at least in this country rather than in Great Britain. Commentary by Diane E. Lindstrom on 61-69.

Reference: 20.

Notes: Brief discussion of the impact of anecdotes on TJ's public reputation, followed by several anecdotes illustrating various of his attributed virtues.

Reference: 21.

Notes: Advice for tourists to Williamsburg, Richmond, and Charlottesville who wish to pursue Jeffersonian associations as they sightsee and dine.

Reference: 22.

Notes: Illustrated account of TJ's plan for the University of Virginia.

Reference: 23.

Notes: Argues that TJ's founding of West Point needs to be understood in the context of his efforts to create and safeguard a new, republican regime. TJ hoped to use the Academy to break up the upperclass monopoly of education.

Reference: 24.