Reference: 459.

Notes: Collected papers from a conference held to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of TJ's tour through Burgundy and the south of France; relevant essays, focusing on TJ's travels in Burgundy, his interest in food, wine and other aspects of French culture, are individually annotated below.

Reference: 460.

Notes: Juvenile biography intended for teenagers. Thoroughly researched, but marred, perhaps, by an overly adulatory portrayal, a tendency to ascribe possible feelings to TJ as if they were fact, and somewhat misjudged attempts to familiarize him as "Tom." Discusses the Sally Hemings controversy, but claims it was Peter Carr who "developed a deep and lasting emotional involvement" with Sally and fathered all her children.

Reference: 461.

Notes: Second edition of work originally published in 1944 ( TJCAB #1466> ). Adds a new introduction, arguing for the continuing relevance of TJ and Hamilton as standards by which to judge the practice of government. Text otherwise unchanged from first edition.

Reference: 462.

Notes: Juvenile. Describes the planning, construction, and occupancy of TJ's dream home. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by the author.

Reference: 463.

Notes: Plans for 12 lessons on TJ, with more attention paid as one might expect to his private life at Monticello than to his public life. Includes materials for discussing the life of the slaves at Monticello in addition to that of the white residents, and also includes a variety of games and activities for students. Well thought out, appropriate for teachers of elementary schools.

Reference: 464.

Notes: Editor's introduction suggests Paine and TJ were "the most influential interpreters of the new American conception of liberty" because they went beyond the particular American circumstances. Reprints Summary View , the Declaration, First Inaugural Address, the Bill for Religious Freedom, and letters to Madison and Paine.

Reference: 465.

Notes: Analyzes TJ's constitutional thinking in terms of "Whig," and "republican" categories; these in turn correspond to his beliefs that constitutions were useful primarily to limit government power, that government power should be divided into distinct spheres and branches, and that ultimately government was accountable to the majority will of the people.

Reference: 466.

Notes: Arguing that TJ's house mirrored himself, claims that "Monticello is the man, and the house is a living testimony to the truth, `I am what I build.'" This leads to an excellent account of TJ's life at Monticello and forcibly reminds us of the degree to which Monticello was always a house in process. TJ did not complete the distinctive porticoes until 1823, by which time sections finished years earlier were already beginning to fall into serious disrepair. The image of a white, shining house we behold today is a myth. The attempt to read TJ's life out of his house does seem, however, to open itself up to some questionable psychologizing; it is difficult, for example, to see why TJ's cramped staircases are necessarily "deeply symbolic of its owner's difficulties with free access and disclosure."

Reference: 467.

Notes: Claims Jefferson deployed `nature' not as a bright thread that led through his intellectual universe but as an unpatterned fabric that enveloped it." Explores TJ's various usage of "nature" and "natural" in an attempt to give a systematic grounding to his ideas and values. Distinguishes between physical nature and human nature, examines the natural basis of his moral and aesthetic ideas as well as of his political and economic concepts, and concludes with a discussion of his "Life with Nature." This is an interesting notion which often is suggestive or informative, but finally it reveals the potential weakness of the thematic approach as inherently reductive. This is particularly true in the pages on TJ's aesthetic ideas which do not make adequate use of recent scholarship in this area. On the whole, however, the book offers a useful if somewhat conventional account of an extremely important element of Jefferson's mentalité

Reference: 468.

Notes: Contains TJ's Parliamentary Pocket-Book and his Manual of Parliamentary Practice written while he was Vice-president of the U.S. and consequently presiding officer of the Senate. Provides a useful chronology of TJ's parliamentary readings and annotations and a thorough annotation of the texts.

Reference: 469.

Notes: Papers from a symposium held to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Papers pertaining to TJ listed separately below by author.

Reference: 470.

Notes: TJ discussed passim . Focus is on military campaigns and the difficulties of supporting the Virginia war effort, but offers useful and illuminating material on TJ's years as a war governor of Virginia and his earlier efforts to new-model the Virginia legal code.

Reference: 471.

Notes: Examines TJ's obsession with public and private debt in terms of his own situation as a long term, heavily indebted Virginia planter as well as in terms of the context of his republican thought. Claims that by exploring the relationship between TJ's plight as a private debtor and his adamant opposition to public debt we can clarify TJ's contributions to the development of republican doctrine in the U.S.

Reference: 472.

Notes: Juvenile, illustrated by James Seward. For readers in primary grades, and like most books for this age group no mention of troubling issues such as slavery, etc.

Reference: 473.

Notes: Juvenile, for readers in grades 4-7 approximately. Faces up to difficult questions and gives good accounts of complex events, at least for a younger audience.

Reference: 474.

Notes: Compares TJ and Franklin as exemplars of Enlightenment ideals and "confirms the common assessment of Franklin and Jefferson as extraordinarily gifted and enlightened men." Finds TJ preferable as the better embodiment of the principles of the Enlightenment because of his "greater generosity, idealism, and integrity."

Reference: 475.

Notes: Suggestive meditation on TJ's notes taken during his tour through France as more interesting for the way in which they show us how to think and write than for the information they offer on France in 1787. Argues that TJ's method of observation and attitude toward the usefulness of particular facts is grounded in the Empiricism of Locke and Boyle, but under the influence of French thinkers and experience his understanding is evolving toward that of the ideologues such as Destutt de Tracy, even toward the positivism of the nineteenth century. His journals of 1787 reveal the "humanisme scientifique" which simultaneously grounds him in an older scientific tradition of the Enlightenment and suggests a more skeptical awareness of human fallibility which characterized important French thinkers after the Terror. In French.

Reference: 476.

Notes: Illustrated sketch of TJ at Monticello. Coffee table.

Reference: 477.

Notes: Sketch of TJ's wife and their relationship.

Reference: 478.

Notes: Argues against Arthur that once the politics of antitrust are taken into account the constitutionalizing of antitrust becomes desirable and inevitable. Antitrust law has resulted in part from an attempt to adapt Hamiltonian means for Jeffersonian ends. Peripheral to TJ.

Reference: 479.

Notes: Claims that "the foremost American icon ... must be considered the map," and considers TJ as the archetypal explorer of this mode of perception in Notes, "a willful mix of science and art, practicality emboldened by, infused with, vision." Uses this supposed Jeffersonian vision as a frame to discuss a larger vision of American culture as experimental, technological, and, sometimes, catastrophic. Impressionistic.

Reference: 480.

Notes: Argues that TJ's stance toward freedom of religion was theological in the sense of Bernard Lonergan's understanding of theology as that which mediates between religion and culture. The beliefs he shared with his fellow Americans included a sense of common beginnings oriented toward the achievement of liberty, an insistence on natural rights derived from a creator, and acknowledgement of a divine Providence overseeing the American experiment. Suggests that TJ's theological foundations for religious freedom had universal implications; in fact, "he made religion in America the paradigm for politics." Religious freedom had to extend to all, it had to admit a pluralism that included non-believers, and it had to allow the free exercise of conscience and rational inquiry. Holds that in the presidency TJ did not remove religion from public discourse, and identifies his religion as ultimately that civil religion described by scholars such as Sidney Mead and Robert Bellah.

Reference: 481.

Notes: John Randolph's attempts to enlist James Monroe in his struggles against Madison and TJ were inadvertently encouraged by TJ's perceived slights of Monroe, but a timely explanation by TJ helped avert Monroe's throwing himself in with the Quids.

Reference: 482.

Notes: Notes TJ's desire to preserve his anonymity on his tour through southern France and his interest in agricultural questions as factors that may have led to his failure to observe or take part in all that Dijon had to offer. He not only bypassed a chance to visit Buffon in nearby Montbard, he also passed by the factories of Montcenis, and while Dijon at the end of the eighteenth century was the center of a brilliant and erudite society, TJ seems to have met only the valet he took on there. Describes the cultural and social life of Dijon, including the large number of English inhabitants and visitors. In French.

Reference: 483.

Notes: Describes what TJ would have seen at the Désert de Retz when he visited it in the company of Maria Cosway. Notes the emotional power of the memories associated with Cosway and then comments on later architectural projects of TJ which reflected his memories of the trip to the Forest of Marly and environs. Suggests TJ was particularly taken by the floor plan of the rez-de-chaussée of the "ruined column" which used oval rooms to fill out a round structure. TJ proposed similar plans for renovations at the Hôtel de Langeac, the first Washington Capitol, and the Rotunda. He may also have been influenced by the variety of architectural and landscape embellishments of the estate. In French.

Reference: 484.