Reference: 2379
Author: Nagley, Winfield E.
Title: Foundations of Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy
Publisher: Univ. of Hawaii
Place of Publication: Honolulu
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. 35

Notes: Contends that "by joining actuality with philosophy in the threads of his many-faceted materialism, Jefferson united what Santayana termed the two halves of the American mind, the hereditary and the practical." Relies on Koch and Stuart G. Brown, but suggestive.

Reference: 2380
Author: Nagley, Winfield E.
Title: "The Materialism of Jefferson"
Publication: Two Centuries of Philosophy in America, ed. Peter Caws
Publisher: Rowman Littlefield
Place of Publication: Totowa, N.J.
Date: (1980)
Extent: 52-60

Notes: no note

Reference: 746
Author: Nakano, Kii.
Title: "Po No Gugo--Bungaku To Rekishi No Setten" ("Poe's Coincidences--An Intersection of History and Literature").
Publication: Journal of American and Canadian Studies (Japan)
Volume: 7
Date: (1991)
Extent: 1-21

Notes: Poe sought justification for literary coincidences from the theory of probability after noting the deaths of TJ and John Adams on July 4th, 1826, and the death of James Monroe on the same day five years later.

Reference: 3119
Author: Nakosteen, Mehdi
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The History and Philosophy of Education
Publisher: Ronald
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1965)
Extent: 451-56

Notes: Survey of TJ's reforming ideas on education.

Reference: 836
Author: Nardo, Don
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Lucent Books
Place of Publication: San Diego
Date: (1993)
Extent: pp. 112.

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 872
Author: Nash, Roderick
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: From These Beginnings: A Biographical Approach to American History
Publisher: Harper and Row
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1978)
Extent: 1:101-48

Notes: TJ's life as background to narrative of American history.

Reference: 3120
Author: Nason, Charles D.
Title: "Jefferson and Washington on National Education."
Publication: Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1898)
Extent: 157-67

Notes: no note

Reference: 1012
Author: Navakas, Edward H.
Title: “Thomas Jefferson's Need for Liberty: Obsessive Personality Style and the Quest for Certainty,”
Publication: The Psychiatric Forum
Volume: 1
Date: (no. 2, 1988)
Extent: 1-2, 12.

Notes: “Published quarterly by the Loyola University Department of Psychiatry in conjunction with the Hines V. A. Hospital Psychiatry Service. ” Uses the work of Leon Salzman on the nature of obsessive personality in order to discuss “the embodiment of obsessive personality style, a man striving to create a world of perfect individual liberty that is immune to time, change, and the vagaries of others. ” Emphasizes that TJ is not simply “a neurotic mistaken for a great man” because obsessiveness is for him a style of adaptation to the world and not a denial of it.

Reference: 3121
Author: Needham, Charles Willis
Title: "Jefferson as a Promoter of General Education"
Publication: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb and Bergh
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1903)
Extent: 4:i-ix

Notes: no note

Reference: 1300
Author: Neff, Kelly Joyce
Title: Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson.
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Place of Publication: Charlottesville, VA.
Date: (1997)
Extent: pp. 625.

Notes: Highly speculative fiction, but based on wide reading and research. Argues for a more colorful Martha Wayles Jefferson than most TJ biographers give.

Reference: 215
Author: Nelson, Robin
Title: "Great Home Ideas from a Presidential Do-it-yourselfer."
Publication: Mechanix Illustrated
Volume: 80
Date: (July, 1984)
Extent: 35-37.

Notes: TJ's gadgets, with diagrams showing handypersons how the French doors, collapsible ladder, and serving door worked.

Reference: 874
Author: Nelson, Virginia Armistead
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Sureties of Magna Carta."
Publication: Southern Literary Messenger
Volume: 2
Date: (1940)
Extent: 255-58

Notes: TJ was descended from ten of the Magna Carta sureties.

Reference: A52
Author: Neswold, G.
Title: "Three Founding Fathers after 60."
Publication: Retirement Living
Volume: 16
Date: (July, 1976)
Extent: 22-24.

Notes: TJ, Franklin, and John Marshall kept active, lived in the present, and lived with zest.

Reference: 875
Author: Netto, Medeiros
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Conferencia Realisado na Associacao Brasileira de Educacao, em 24 de Maio de 1943
Publication: Jornal do Commercio
Place of Publication: Rio de Janeiro
Date: (1943)
Extent: pp. 52

Notes: Survey of TJ's democratic principles.

Reference: 431
Author: Nevins, Jane
Title: "The Men in the Empty Chairs"
Publication: Turning 200: The Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
Publisher: Richardson & Steirman,
Place of Publication: n.p.:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 10-29.

Notes: Popular account; discusses TJ and John Adams as the two important leaders absent from the 1787 convention. They each feared for the American experiment, but in differing ways which arose from principles that had contending adherents in the convention. Conventional sketch, emphasizing his preference for merely amending the Articles of Confederation and his complacency toward Shays's rebels.

Reference: 876
Author: Nevins, Allan
Title: "Jefferson: Mentor for Our Times."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: (1943)
Extent: 12, 23

Notes: no note

Reference: 1856
Author: Nevins, Allan
Title: The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1927)
Extent: 324-33

Notes: Discusses TJ's governorship of Virginia which exposed in him "certain real defects of capacity."

Reference: 1189
Author: New, Elisa
Title: “Beyond the Romance Theory of American Vision: Beauty and the Qualified Will in Edwards, Jefferson, and Audubon,”
Publication: American Literary History
Volume: 7
Date: (1995)
Extent: 381-414.

Notes: Argues that TJ's “language subordinates will to experience. ” Discusses his preference for immediate experience of the world, and of a world preferably familiar and well-known, as a check to a potentially unlimited self. Focuses on Query IV in Notes , but discusses letters and other writings. Contextualizes TJ's practice of vision and representation with those of Edwards and Audubon, who each in his own way in beauty an “ontological force” that places limits to human power to project desire into observed nature. Argues against much recent criticism of American literature that seems narrowly obsessed with issues of power and domination, with the so called “imperial I.”

Reference: 837
Author: Newberry Library
Title: Th. Jefferson, A Life with Letters: An Exhibition Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Sage of Monticello: March 15-May 1, 1993.
Publisher: Newberry Library
Place of Publication: Curators Charles T. Cullen, Martha T. Briggs. Chicago
Date: (1993)
Extent: Pp. iii, 80.

Notes: Exhibition catalogue.

Reference: 3122
Author: Newcomb, Rexford
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Architect."
Publication: Architect
Volume: 9
Date: (1928)
Extent: 429-32

Notes: Survey.

Reference: 2381
Author: Newton, Joseph Fort
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Religion of American Life."
Publication: Forum
Volume: 78
Date: (1927)
Extent: 890-96

Notes: TJ believed in salvation by education" and in religious democracy.

Reference: 268
Author: Nichols, Gene R.
Title: "Children of Distant Fathers: Sketching an Ethos of Constitutional Liberty."
Publication: Wisconsin Law Review.
Date: (1985)
Extent: 1305-57.

Notes: Argues for a location in the ninth amendment of a constitutional right to self-governance. TJ's Declaration and other writings give the clearest statement of the American commitment to self-governance, which in turn supports the Supreme Court's decisions that give constitutional protection to personal privacy. Because the Court has failed to locate unambiguously the textual sources of such rights, it is necessary to introduce into constitutional discourse the American dedication to self-governance figured by TJ and Abraham Lincoln.

Reference: 346
Author: Nichols, Frederick D.
Title: "Architecture"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (see above).
Publisher: Scribners,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1986)
Extent: 215-232.

Notes: Informed survey of TJ's architectural interests and activities, particularly Monticello and the University of Virginia. When TJ returned from Europe in 1789, says the author, he had acquired truly professional abilities which distinguished him from the gentleman amateur he had been. Comments also on his interest in urban design, e.g. the "checkerboard" plan and the laying out of Washington, D.C.

Reference: 432
Author: Nichols, David K.
Title: "The Promise of Progressivism: Herbert Croly and the Progressive Rejection of Individual Rights."
Publication: Publius
Volume: 17
Date: (Spring, 1987)
Extent: 27-39.

Notes: Discusses Croly's attempt to synthesize Hamiltonianism and Jeffersonianism; describes as distorting his identification of the tradition of TJ as that Primarily of a defense of individual rights against state power and suggests that it in effect fosters a confusion of TJ and the Antifederalists.

Reference: A53
Author: Nichols, Frederick D.
Title: "Restoring Jefferson's University"
Publication: Building Early America, ed. Charles E. Peterson
Publisher: Chilton Book Co.
Place of Publication: Radnor, PA
Date: (1976)
Extent: 319-39.

Notes: Account of TJ's original design and construction of the University of Virginia buildings, subsequent changes, and the most recent restoration. The aim of the restoration has not been to duplicate TJ's originals but to modernize what must continue to be a vital part of the University. Additions to the original buildings required by subsequent generations have been kept, but a central concern has been to recapture TJ's "masterly architectural spaces." Illustrated.

Reference: 879
Author: Nichols, Ashton
Title: "A Country Place: 'Poplar Forest'."
Publication: Country Magazine
Volume: 2
Date: (1981)
Extent: 48-51

Notes: no note

Reference: 880
Author: Nichols, Frederick Doveton
Title: "Jefferson's Retreat: Poplar Forest."
Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 37
Date: (1974)
Extent: 2-13

Notes: One of the best popular accounts of Poplar Forest; illustrated.

Reference: 3123
Author: Nichols, Frederick D.
Title: "Belle Grove in the Developing Civilization of the Valley of Virginia."
Publication: Historic Preservation
Volume: 20
Date: (1968)
Extent: 6-20

Notes: Ascribes Belle Grove's architecture to TJ on the basis of a recently discovered letter. Description.

Reference: 3124
Author: Nichols, Frederick Doveton
Title: Early Charlottesville Architecture; An Exhibition to Commemorate the Sesquicentennial Celebration by the Albemarle County Historical Society and the University of Virginia of the Signing of the Treaty for the Louisiana Purchase
Publisher: Charlottesville Public Library
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1953)
Extent: pp. 8

Notes: no note

Reference: 3125
Author: Nichols, Frederick D.
Title: "Jefferson: The Making of an Architect"
Publication: Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View, ed. William Howard Adams
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1976)
Extent: 159-85

Notes: Informative discussion of the architecture TJ knew and admired in France and its influence on the buildings he designed.

Reference: 3126
Author: Nichols, Frederick Doveton and James A. Bear, Jr.
Title: Monticello
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Place of Publication: Monticello
Date: (1967)
Extent: pp. 77

Notes: Guide book for sale at Monticello; a model of its kind.

Reference: 3127
Author: Nichols, Frederick Doveton
Title: "The Restoration of 'Academical Village' Gardens Completed."
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Alumni News
Volume: 53
Date: (1965)
Extent: 2-7, 31-33

Notes: The East Lawn gardens at the University.

Reference: 3128
Author: Nichols, Frederick Doveton
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings. A Massachusetts Historical Society Picture Book
Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1960)
Extent: pp. 10, (22)

Notes: The foreword, "TJ's Architectural Development," contends the drawings show his growth as an artist; he became "the leading Romantic Classicist in America before Latrobe." See the revised editions of this listed as the next item.

Reference: 3129
Author: Nichols, Frederick Doveton
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings Compiled and with Commentary and a Check List
Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1961)
Extent: pp. 46

Notes: Adds a checklist of TJ's drawings to the foregoing; 3rd edition also published in 1961, adds Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and The University Press of Virginia as co-publishers, 48 pp. Useful research tool, especially these two editions.

Reference: 3130
Author: Nichols, Frederick Doveton and Ralph E. Griswold
Title: Thomas Jefferson Landscape Architect
Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1978)
Extent: pp. xvii, 196

Notes: Broad informative survey of TJ's interests in horticulture and landscape architecture, influences on him, his plans for Monticello and the Univ. of Virginia, and his contributions to horticulture.

Reference: 1112
Author: Nicolaisen, Peter
Title: Thomas Jefferson .
Publication: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
Place of Publication: Reinbek bei Hamburg
Date: (1995)
Extent: pp. 160.

Notes: Biography, in German, for a general audience. Well-researched and thorough account in a brief compass.

Reference: 1190
Author: Nicolaisen, Peter
Title: “Bildung und Erziehung im Denken Thomas Jeffersons,”
Publication: in Wasser, ed. Thomas Jefferson: Historische Bedeuteung und Politische Aktualität
Publisher: Ferdinand Schöningh
Place of Publication: Paderborn
Date: (1995)
Extent: 109-42.

Notes: “Moral and Civil Education in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson. ” In German.

Reference: 1266
Author: Nicolaisen, Peter
Title: “Civic Virtue and the Demands of the Individual: Jefferson's Views on Education,”
Publication: Amerikastudien/American Studies
Volume: 41
Date: (1996)
Extent: 67-82.

Notes: Claims that TJ in his letters of advice to young relatives was less interested in the psychology of the learner, in individual needs or talents, than in setting up a curriculum that would produce virtuous public servants. Nevertheless, his concern for developing independent, questioning minds and his willingness to allow for constant revisions of the body of knowledge handed down from one generation to another reflects the “liberal” aspect of his thinking that goes along with his “republican” program.

Reference: 881
Author: Nicolay, Helen
Title: The Boy's Life of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Appleton-Century
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1933)
Extent: pp. xi, 360

Notes: no note

Reference: 882
Author: Nicolay, Helen
Title: "Diplomats and a Democrat"
Publication: Our Capital on the Potomac
Publication: Century
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1924)
Extent: 71-93

Notes: TJ in Washington, D. C.

Reference: 883
Author: Nicolay, John G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Home."
Publication: Century Magazine
Volume: 34
Date: (1887)
Extent: 643-53

Notes: The building of Monticello.

Reference: 1857
Author: Nicolay, Helen
Title: "Our Nation in the Building; The Romance of American Union."
Publication: Century Magazine
Volume: 91
Date: (1914-15)
Extent: 189-215, 456-65

Notes: Popular treatment; these installments cover TJ's presidency.

Reference: 884
Author: Nock, Albert Jay
Title: Jefferson
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1926)
Extent: pp. 340

Notes: Although somewhat uncritical in its use of the Beard thesis, this is a shrewd and perceptive assessment of TJ. More a study of character than a formal biography, but organized along biographical lines.

Reference: 885
Author: Nock, Albert Jay
Title: "Mr. Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Saturday Review of Literature
Volume: 6
Date: (1930)
Extent: 631

Notes: Review of Chinard's Thomas Jefferson; cautions against confusing Jeffersonism with Americanism.

Reference: 3131
Author: Nolan, Carolyn G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Gentleman Musician."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1967)
Extent: pp. 126, xiv

Notes: no note

Reference: 3132
Author: Noland, Nancy
Title: "Jefferson and Palladio."
Publication: Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies
Volume: 16
Date: (1943)
Extent: 1-15

Notes: Discriminating study of TJ's architecture, although it may overemphasize the Palladian influence. Warns that TJ's work must be set apart from the styles that most closely surround it.

Reference: 216
Author: Noll, Mark
Title: "When `Infidels' Run for Office."
Publication: Christianity Today
Volume: 28
Date: (October 5, 1984)
Extent: 20-25.

Notes: Examines the election of 1800 and the clerical attacks on TJ as an example of misdirected religious zeal, but recognizes the legitimacy of a Christian involvement in public life.

Reference: 3133
Author: Noll, Bink
Title: "Air Tunnel, Monticello."
Publication: Kenyon Review
Volume: 23
Date: (1961)
Extent: 67

Notes: Poem; the air tunnel is part of a waste removal system TJ devised.

Reference: 2382
Author: Noonan, John T., Jr.
Title: "Virginia Liberators"
Publication: Persons and Masks of the Law: Cardozo, Holmes, Jefferson, and Wythe as Makers of the Masks
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1976)
Extent: 29-64

Notes: On Wythe and TJ; contends their legal education, teaching them that decisions were to be made in terms of the abstract conditions of the law "without respect to persons," blinded them to the nature of slavery and of slaves as persons.

Reference: 1858
Author: Norcross, Jonathan
Title: The History of Democracy Considered as a Party Name and as a Political Organization
Publisher: Published for the Author by G. P. Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1883)
Extent: 65-78

Notes: Democrats are demagogues, dissolute and perpetually dissatisfied, but TJ was a Republican (GOP), "although he did many very naughty things that looked like Democratic deeds." Doubts that he wrote the "treasonable" Kentucky Resolutions.

Reference: 2383
Author: Norlin, George
Title: "Humanism in the Virginia Colony: Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence"
Publication: The Quest of American Life
Publication: Univ. of Colorado Studies. Series B. Studies in the Humanities.
Volume: Vol. 2, No. 3.
Publisher: Univ. of Colorado
Place of Publication: Boulder
Date: (1945)
Extent: 75-92

Notes: Conventional generalities.

Reference: 2384
Author: Northrop, F. S. C.
Title: "The Declaration of Independence"
Publication: The Meeting of East and West.
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1946)
Extent: 70-102

Notes: Philosophical background, mostly Lockean, of the Declaration; better on Locke than on TJ.

Reference: 2385
Author: Northrop, F. S. C.
Title: "Jefferson's Conception of the Role of Science in World History."
Publication: Cahiers d'Histoire Mondiale
Volume: 9
Date: (1966)
Extent: 891-911

Notes: Suggestive exploration of the connections and distinctions between the principles of mathematical physics and those of contractual law.

Reference: 3134
Author: Norton, Paul F
Title: "Jefferson's Plan for Mothballing the Frigates."
Publication: U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Volume: 82
Date: (1956)
Extent: 737-41

Notes: TJ in 1802 proposed an enclosed dry dock to store unused frigates in time of peace. Benjamin Latrobe produced designs for this.

Reference: 3135
Author: Norton, Paul Foote
Title: "Latrobe, Jefferson and the National Capitol."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Princeton Univ
Date: (1952)
Extent: pp. 442

Notes: Follows "the exact contributions made by Jefferson's suggestions and by Latrobe's talent ... step by step through the years of Jefferson's presidency." DAI 15/04, p. 554. Printed, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977, in series of "Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts."

Reference: 3136
Author: Norton, Paul
Title: "Latrobe's Ceiling for the Hall of Representatives."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 10
Date: (1951)
Extent: 5-10

Notes: TJ and Latrobe differ over plans.

Reference: 3137
Author: Norton, Paul F.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Planning of the National Capital"
Publication: Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View, ed. William Howard Adams
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1976)
Extent: 187-232

Notes: TJ's role in planning Washington, D. C., particularly in regard to his work with Benjamin Latrobe.

Reference: 712
Author: Not Provided
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Tim's Time Machine.
Publisher: Cherry Lane Press,
Date: (1991)

Notes: Juvenile, for grades 3-4.

Reference: 3138
Author: Nunez, Bernard E.
Title: "Jefferson's Favorite Medicine, Wine"
Publication: Jefferson and Wine, ed. R. deTreville Lawrence, Sr.
Publisher: Vinifera Wine Growers Association
Place of Publication: The Plains, Va.
Date: (1976)
Extent: 163-99

Notes: TJ regarded a moderate amount of wine as a "necessity of life for me," and like many contemporaries believed in its medicinal efficacy.

Reference: 1859
Author: Nunis, Doyce B., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Man"
Publication: American Political Thought: Search for Nationhood
Publisher: Addision-Wesley
Place of Publication: Menlo Park, Cal.
Date: (1975)
Extent: 38-60

Notes: Survey for undergraduates; emphasis on "Jefferson the doctrinaire."

Reference: 1860
Author: Nussbaum, Frederick L.
Title: "American Tobacco and French Politics, 1783-1789."
Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 40
Date: (1925)
Extent: 497-516

Notes: Examines TJ's efforts to end the control of the Farmers General over the American tobacco trade and to oppose the creation of monopolies such as that envisioned by Robert Morris.

Reference: 2386
Author: Nye, Russel B.
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy"
Publication: Main Problems in American History, ed. Howard H. Quint, Dean Albertson, and Milton Cantor
Publisher: Dorsey Press
Place of Publication: Homewood, Ill.
Date: (1964)
Extent: 126-35

Notes: Sketches TJ's pragmatic evolution of a theory of government; revised edition, 1968.