San Antonio College Library

A comprehensive, one-volume biography of Jefferson focusing on the themes of democracy, nationality, and enlightenment running throughout his career.

At twenty-three, Thomas Jefferson became the youngest practitioner before Virginia's highest court. This is the first book to explore in depth the eight years that Jefferson spent as a trial lawyer. Frank L. Dewey considers how Jefferson prepared for his career, how he acquired a clientele, what kind of cases he handled, how he fared financially, and why he retired from the law. The principal sources for this account are found in unpublished notes...

Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder-not as a great political figure, but as leader of "a revolution of ideas that would make the world over again." In Thomas Jefferson, Bernstein offers the...

Reconstructs seventeen days in the life of Thomas Jefferson during which the Declaration of Independence was written and edited. Includes reproductions of original manuscripts showing revisions and deletions.

Traces the life of Thomas Jefferson and attempts to explain the paradoxical nature of his personality.

A biography focusing on the domestic life of Thomas Jefferson and the building of his home Monticello.