Reference: 3184
Author: P'erouse de Montclos, J. M.
Title: "Jefferson and Architecture in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century"
Publication: The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, ed. William Howard Adams
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1976)
Extent: 167-89

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

Reference: 894
Author: Padgett, James A.
Title: "The Letters of Doctor Samuel Brown to President Jefferson and James Brown."
Publication: Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society
Volume: 35
Date: (1937)
Extent: 99-130

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

Reference: A57
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as Adult Educator"
Publication: Looking Towards the Twenty-First Century: Continuing Education Comes of Age. Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Meeting, Association for Continuing Education
Publisher: Association for Continuing Higher Education,
Place of Publication: Norman OK:
Date: (1979)

Notes: Discusses the impact of Jeffersonian ideals on higher education. Not seen.

Reference: 895
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "The American as Democrat: Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Genius of America, Men Whose Ideas Shaped Our Civilization
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1960)
Extent: 55-68

Notes: no note

Reference: 896
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: A Jefferson Profile as Revealed in His Letters
Publisher: John Day
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1956)
Extent: ix-xiv

Notes: "The philosopher of freedom and happiness."

Reference: 897
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: Jefferson
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1942)
Extent: pp. 459

Notes: no note

Reference: 898
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: Jefferson
Publisher: New American Library
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1952)
Extent: pp. 192

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

Reference: 899
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: Jefferson, A Great American's Life and Ideas
Publisher: Highland Press
Place of Publication: Hong Kong
Date: (1956)
Extent: pp. 290

Notes: Text in Chinese.

Reference: 900
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Jefferson Still Survives."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: (1962)
Extent: 28+

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

Reference: 901
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Jefferson vs. Totalitarianism."
Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 57
Date: (1943)
Extent: 318-19

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

Reference: 1867
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Jefferson's Prose Poem: The Declaration of Independence."
Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 54
Date: (1942)
Extent: 165-71

Notes: Account of the composition of the Declaration.

Reference: 1868
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Election of 1800."
Publication: Lithopinion
Volume: 7
Date: (1972)
Extent: 8-14

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

Reference: 2392
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: Democracy By Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Appleton-Century
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1939)
Extent: 1-20

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

Reference: 2393
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Foundations of American Freedom
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand
Place of Publication: Princeton
Date: (1965)
Extent: pp. 191

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

Reference: 3162
Author: Padover, Saul K., ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital. Preface by Harold L. Ickes
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1946)
Extent: pp. xxxvi, 523

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: 3163
Author: Padover, Saul K.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher, Statesman: and Musician."
Publication: Stereo Review
Volume: 21
Date: (1968)
Extent: 82-86

Notes: General survey of TJ's musical interests.

Reference: 902
Author: Page, Rosewell
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Extent: 343-45

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

Reference: 903
Author: Page, Thomas J
Title: "Jefferson and Macaulay."
Publication: Virginia University Magazine
Volume: 4
Date: (1860)
Extent: 515-24

Notes: no note

Reference: 904
Author: Page, Thomas Nelson
Title: Tommaso Jefferson, Apostolo Della Liberta (1743-1826)
Publication: Con Prefazione del Sen. Maggiorino Ferraris
Publisher: R. Bemporad & Figlio
Place of Publication: Firenze
Date: (1918?)
Extent: pp. 111

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

Reference: 1869
Author: Page, Ralph W.
Title: "The British-American Adventures Toward Liberty."
Publication: World's Work
Volume: 35
Date: (1917)
Extent: 48-65

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: 3164
Author: Page, Thomas Nelson
Title: "Jefferson and the University of Virginia"
Publication: Old Dominion
Publisher: Scribner's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1908)
Extent: 198-234

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

Reference: 905
Author: Palmer, Phyllis M.
Title: "Jefferson's Pursuit of Independence."
Publication: Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly
Volume: 59
Date: (1975)
Extent: 78-81

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 1870
Author: Palmer, Robert R.
Title: "The Dubious Democrat: Thomas Jefferson in Bourbon France."
Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 72
Date: (1957)
Extent: 388-404

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: 2394
Author: Palmer, R. R.
Title: "A Neglected Work: Otto Vossler on Jefferson and the Revolutionary Era."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Extent: 462-71

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

Reference: 1871
Author: Pancake, John S.
Title: Thomas Jefferson & Alexander Hamilton
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Place of Publication: Woodbury, N.Y.
Date: (1974)
Extent: pp. 521

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: 2395
Author: Pancake, John S.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary Philosopher, A Selection of Writings
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Place of Publication: Woodbury, N.Y.
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. 346

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: 509
Author: Pangle, Thomas L.
Title: "The Eclipse of the Intellectual Virtues"

Title: "The New Meaning of the Active Virtues"
Publication: The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Place of Publication: Chicago:
Date: (1988)
Extent: 74-111.

Notes: TJ discussed in passing throughout this volume (and more specifically in these chapters) in the context of its larger argument that the political theory informing the American founding has been variously misunderstood by scholars influenced by Marxian or Weberian views and also by proponents of the central influence of "classical republicanism." Asserts the importance of Locke, the values of liberty, personal security, property, and prosperity. The first of the above noted chapters considers TJ's ideas on education and religion as part of a movement away from the classical tradition of valuing virtue for its own sake toward a more utilitarian and social conception. The second discusses his attitudes about agriculture and commerce, concluding that despite his perception of the moral dangers of the commercial spirit, TJ shares with other founders a belief in "an ever more prosperous, growth-oriented economy." Thoughtful, if sometimes inclined to attack straw figures and to insist problematically on the autonomy of theory.

Reference: 938
Author: Pangle, Lorraine Smith and Thomas K. Pangle
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on the Education of Citizens and Leaders" and "Thomas Jefferson and the Natural Basis of Moral Education" in The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders .
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Place of Publication: Lawrence
Date: (1993)
Extent: 106-24; 250-64.

Notes: The first of these chapters provides an excellent, concise account of TJ's ideas about education, particularly focusing on the issue of how to provide education on an egalitarian basis and at the same time encourage the development of the natural aristocrats of talent and virtue who will become political leaders of the future. The later chapter examines TJ's moral sense theory, concluding with a discussion of it as a compromise between seeing virtue as a social duty, measured by the approbation of others, and virtue as a good in itself, measured by self-respect. One might argue with this as a reductive reading of TJ's moral position, but each of these chapters is a thoughtful, suggestive discussion.

Reference: 939
Author: Paret, Peter
Title: “Jefferson and the Birth of European Liberalism,”
Publication: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Volume: 137
Date: (1993)
Extent: 488-97.

Notes: Comments that from the beginning TJ and the United States were integrated into European liberal thought. Early European liberalism, beginning after the fall of Napoleon, saw TJ as a model of an intellectual and man of affairs who understood power but did not love it. Notes that TJ's situation in America differed from that of European liberals living under various regimes that tended to be more autocratic; he took more radical positions on valuing republican government and desiring an extended franchise that his European admirers did not agree with but chose to overlook. Compares him to Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Reference: 1013
Author: Parish, Lawrence Charles and Daniel H. Parish
Title: “Thomas Jefferson and Tropical Dermatology,”
Publication: International Journal of Dermatology
Volume: 28
Date: (1989)
Extent: 615-18.

Notes: The usual account of TJ's medical interests and ideas. Argues that Virginia presents conditions for “tropical” diseases, but does not in fact have anything special to say about dermatology of any kind.

Reference: 1371
Author: Parish, Peter J.
Title: "A Respectful Revisionism: Lincoln and the Jeffersonian Legacy in the Civil War Era"
Publication: Reason and Republicanism , ed. McDowell and Noble
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication: Lanham MD.
Date: (1997)
Extent: 169-88.

Notes: Discusses Lincoln's respect for Jefferson, noting that after the Civil War began, Lincoln ceased to invoke Jefferson by name. Draws upon James McPherson's view that before the War the American understanding of liberty accorded with Isaiah Berlin's definition of negative liberty and after the War with that of positive liberty. Lincoln credited for a "respectful revisionism" that makes this possible.

Reference: 907
Author: Parisot, Jacques Theodore
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne....
Publisher: Michaud Freres
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1841)
Extent: 145-59

Notes: no note

Reference: 347
Author: Parissien, Steven
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and English Palladianism."
Publication: Apollo
Volume: 124
Date: (October, 1986)
Extent: 366-68.

Notes: Contends that the influence of French architects on TJ has been somewhat exaggerated and the influence of English Palladianism of the mid century, particularly Robert Morris and Sir Robert Taylor, has been underestimated. Designs for early stages of Monticello and for Poplar Forest seem to owe much to designs in Morris's Rural Architecture , which TJ acquired in 1770 or 1771, and he may have seen a number of Taylor's buildings on his 1786 trip to England. Suggestive, but needs a more detailed, extensive presentation to make the argument.

Reference: 1872
Author: Park, Edwards
Title: "Absolutely, Dr. Franklin?: Positively, Mr. Jefferson"'
Publication: Smithsonian
Volume: 7
Date: (1976)
Extent: 50-51

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

Reference: 908
Author: Parker, Alton B.
Title: "Jefferson's Faith in the People"
Publication: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb and Bergh
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1903)
Extent: 10:i-xii

Notes: no note

Reference: 909
Author: Parker, Theodore
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Historic Americans
Publisher: H. B. Fuller
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1870)
Extent: 235-95

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: 2396
Author: Parkes, Henry Bamford
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy "
Publication: Symposium
Volume: 4
Date: (1933)
Extent: 302-23

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

Reference: 2397
Author: Parks, William
Title: "The Influence of Scottish Sentimentalist Ethical Theory on Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Human Nature."
Publication: Ph.D dissertation
Publisher: College of William and Mary
Date: (1975)
Extent: pp. 241

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: 2398
Author: Parks, William
Title: "Scottish Sentimentalist Ethics in Jefferson's America"
Publication: Proceedings of the Conference on Scottish Studies
Volume: No.1
Publisher: Old Dominion University
Place of Publication: Norfolk
Date: (1973)
Extent: 31-43

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

Reference: 3165
Author: Parks, Edd Winfield
Title: "Jefferson as a Man of Letters."
Publication: Georgia Review
Volume: 6
Date: (1952)
Extent: 450-59

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: 3166
Author: Parks, Edd Winfield
Title: "Jefferson's Attitude Toward History."
Publication: Georgia Historical Quarterly
Volume: 36
Date: (1952)
Extent: 336-41

Notes: Conventional survey.

Reference: 2399
Author: Parmelee, MaryPlatt
Title: "Jefferson and His Political Philosophy"
Publication: Arena
Volume: 18
Date: (1897)
Extent: 505-16

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

Reference: 940
Author: Parr, Marilyn K.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Short, Selected List of References"
Publication: Library of Congress Information Bulletin
Volume: 52
Date: (1993)
Extent: 144-45.

Notes: Lists and briefly describes 15 standard collections and scholarly texts.

Reference: 2400
Author: Parrington, Vernon Louis
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Agrarian Democrat"
Publication: Main Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800
Publisher: Harcourt
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1927)
Extent: 342-56

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: 906
Author: Parris, Leonard
Title: "Designer of Ideals."
Publication: Senior Scholastic
Volume: 71
Date: (1957)
Extent: 11

Notes: no note

Reference: 626
Author: Parry, Jay A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Architect of American Freedom"
Publication: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Heroes: America's Founding Presidents
Publisher: National Center for Constitutional Studies,
Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.:
Date: (1990)
Extent: 68-95.

Notes: Conventional biographical sketch, emphasizing TJ as a non-radical who thought government should stay within constitutional limits. The author intends to help restore the constitutional system of the U. S. by restoring faith in the founding fathers and consequently offers a somewhat muted and old-fashioned view of TJ. States that neither of the major parties of today can legitimately claim the legacy of TJ, "though both parties pretend to do so." Reprints first inaugural address.

Reference: 941
Author: Parshall, Gerald
Title: "The Feuding Fathers"
Publication: U.S. News and World Report
Volume: 114
Date: (February 1,1993)
Extent: 52-57.

Notes: TJ's disputes with Hamilton and Adams in the 1790s and political contentions leading up to the election of 1800.

Reference: 942
Author: Parshall, Gerald
Title: "A Polymath at His Peak."
Publication: U.S. News and World Report
Volume: 114
Date: (February 1,1993)
Extent: 58-59.

Notes: On the 1993 exhibit at Monticello.

Reference: A58
Author: Parsons, Howard L.
Title: "The Significance of the Declaration of Independence of the U.S.A."
Publication: Self, Global Issues, and Ethics
Publisher: B. R. Gruner Publishing,
Place of Publication: Amsterdam:
Date: (1980)
Extent: 49-66.

Notes: A Marxist analysis, arguing that TJ and the Declaration were important in so far as they prepared the way for the socialist revolutions in the twentieth century. Sees TJ as a forerunner of Marx and Engels and the theory of natural rights as anticipating the materialist view that human bodily needs collectively united are the prime driving force of human history. Although TJ was a "dialectical thinker" to a limited degree, he "was born too soon to realize that the declining class of feudalists was rapidly being displaced by a rising class of capitalists who would vex and vitiate the people more extensively and viciously than George III had done." Basically an apologetic which tries to have TJ and Marx too, but does by simplifying each of them.

Reference: 910
Author: Parton, James
Title: "College Days of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 16-33

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: 911
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson a Student of Law."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 179-97

Notes: no note

Reference: 912
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson a Virginia Lawyer."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 312-31

Notes: no note

Reference: 913
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson in the House of Burgesses of Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 395-412

Notes: no note

Reference: 914
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson in the Service of Revolutionary Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 517-34

Notes: no note

Reference: 915
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson in the Continental Congress."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 676-94

Notes: no note

Reference: 916
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson a Reformer of Old Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 32-49

Notes: no note

Reference: 917
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson Governor of Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 174-92

Notes: no note

Reference: 918
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Sore-Head."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 273-88

Notes: no note

Reference: 919
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson American Minister in France."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 405-24

Notes: no note

Reference: 920
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson's Return from France in 1789."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 547-65

Notes: no note

Reference: 921
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Meeting of Jefferson and Hamilton."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 704-19

Notes: no note

Reference: 922
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Cabinet of President Washington."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 29-44

Notes: no note

Reference: 923
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 163-79

Notes: no note

Reference: 924
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Quarrel of Jefferson and Hamilton."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 257-75

Notes: no note

Reference: 925
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Exploits of Edmond Genet in the United States."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 385-405

Notes: no note

Reference: 926
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Presidential Campaign of 1796."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 542-60

Notes: no note

Reference: 927
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The French Imbroglio of 1798."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 641-60

Notes: no note

Reference: 928
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Presidential Election of 1800."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 27-45

Notes: no note

Reference: 929
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Art of Being President Gathered from the Experience of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 129-48

Notes: no note

Reference: 930
Author: Parton, James
Title: "President Jefferson's Chief Measures."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 298-318

Notes: no note

Reference: 931
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Last Years."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 393-412

Notes: no note

Reference: 932
Author: Parton, James
Title: Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States
Publisher: James R. Osgood
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1874)
Extent: pp. vi, 764

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

Reference: 933
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson" and "The Wife of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: People's Book of Biography: or, Short Lives of the Most Interesting Persons of All Ages and Countries
Publisher: A. S. Hale & Co.
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1868)
Extent: 566-73

Notes: no note

Reference: 934
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1902, by John Fiske, Carl Schurz, Robert C. Winthrop, George Ticknor Curtis, Georee Bancroft, John Hay, and Others, ed. James Grant Wilson
Publisher: Appleton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1902)
Extent: 62-87

Notes: no note

Reference: 2401
Author: Paschall, G. Spurgeon
Title: "Jefferson and the Baptists."
Publication: The Quarterly Review: A Survey of Southern Baptist Progress
Volume: 15
Date: (1955)
Extent: 54-56

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

Reference: 935
Author: Pate, H. Clay
Title: "Monticello"
Publication: The American Vade Mecum, or the Companion of Youth, and Guide to College
Publisher: Morgan & Co.
Place of Publication: Cincinnati
Date: (1852)
Extent: 157-60

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

Reference: 388
Author: Patterson, Charles
Title: Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Franklin Watts,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 95.

Notes: "A First Book," for approximately grades 4-7. Responsible use of facts, although some issues, such as slavery, are treated with less sophistication than they ought to be. Good of its type.

Reference: 937
Author: Patterson, Augusta O.
Title: "Monticello."
Publication: Town and Country
Volume: 101
Date: (1947)
Extent: 98-105, 136

Notes: Illustrated spread.

Reference: 1873
Author: Patterson, Caleb Perry
Title: Constitutional Principles of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Univ. of Texas Press
Place of Publication: Austin
Date: (1953)
Extent: pp. 211

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: 1874
Author: Patterson, Caleb Perry
Title: "Jefferson and Judicial Review."
Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 30
Date: (1944)
Extent: 431-51

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: 1875
Author: Patterson, C. Perry
Title: "Jefferson the Lawyer."
Publication: Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review
Volume: 11
Date: (1950)
Extent: 369-96

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: 1876
Author: Patterson, Caleb Perry
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution."
Publication: Minnesota Law Review
Volume: 29
Date: (1945)
Extent: 265-79

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: 1877
Author: Pattison, William D.
Title: Beginnings of the American Rectangular Land Survey System, 1784-1800
Publication: Dept. of Geography Research Paper
Volume: No. 50
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1957)
Extent: pp. vii, 248

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: 943
Author: Patton, Phil
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Look at America's Founding Father of Design on His 250th Birthday"
Publication: ID.
Volume: 40
Date: (May/June, 1993)
Extent: 38-39.

Notes: The Monticello exhibit.

Reference: 938
Author: Patton, John S.
Title: "Monticello."
Publication: University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 7
Date: (1914)
Extent: 633-46

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

Reference: 939
Author: Patton, John S. and Sallie J. Doswell
Title: Monticello and Its Master
Publisher: Michie Press
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1925)
Extent: pp. 78

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

Reference: 1878
Author: Patton, Jacob Harris
Title: Political Parties in the United States, Their History and Influence
Publisher: New Amsterdam Book Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1896)
Extent: pp. ix, 387

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

Reference: 3168
Author: Patton, John S.
Title: Jefferson, Cabell, and the University of Virginia
Publisher: Neale
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1906)
Extent: pp. viii, 380

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

Reference: 3169
Author: Patton, John S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Contributions to Natural History."
Publication: Natural History
Volume: 19
Date: (1919)
Extent: 405-10

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: 940
Author: Paulding, C. G.
Title: "Ten Little Indians: Jefferson's Letter to the Indian Chiefs."
Publication: Commonwealth
Volume: 45
Date: (1946)
Extent: 182-83

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

Reference: 3170
Author: Paullin, Charles O.
Title: "The Eugenic Views of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams."
Publication: Journal of Heredity
Volume: 25
Date: (1934)
Extent: 217-28

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

Reference: 1194
Author: Pawelczak, Andy
Title: “Jefferson in Paris,”
Publication: Films in Review
Volume: 46
Date: (July/August, 1995)
Extent: 55-56.

Notes: Review of the Merchant/Ivory film finds it misconceived. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's script never decides what it is about and misses any real sense of TJ's intellectual and political passions.

Reference: 1879
Author: Pawelek, Dick
Title: "Stormy Birth of U.S. Political Parties."
Publication: Senior Scholastic
Volume: 112
Date: (1979)
Extent: 10-12

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

Reference: A59
Author: Pearson, Samuel C.
Title: "Nature's God: A Reassessment of the Religion of the Founding Fathers."
Publication: Religion in Life
Volume: 46
Date: (Summer 1977)
Extent: 152-65.

Notes: Discusses Franklin, TJ, and John Adams, and claims that, while ambivalent, they were less hostile to organized religion than has sometimes been suggested. They saw their kind of religious thinking as essential for the preservation and usefulness of Christianity in a democratic national life. TJ was Unitarian, rationalistic, moralistic, anticlerical, and anti-confessional, but not hypocritical, antireligious, or anti-Christian.

Reference: 2402
Author: Pearson, Samuel C.
Title: "Nature's God: A Reassessment of the Religion of the Founding Fathers."
Publication: Religion in Life
Volume: 46
Date: (1977)
Extent: 152-65

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

Reference: 1880
Author: Pease, Theodore Calvin
Title: "The Days of Jeffersonian Simplicity"
Publication: The United States
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1927)
Extent: 241-60

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

Reference: 941
Author: Peattie, Donald Culross
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Architect of Democracy."
Publication: Reader's Digest
Volume: 42
Date: (1943)
Extent: 1-5

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

Reference: 177
Author: Pechatnov, Vladimir Olegovich
Title: Gamilton i Dzhefferson.
Publisher: Mezhdunarodnie Otnosheniia,
Place of Publication: Moskva:
Date: (1984)
Extent: 336.

Notes: Examines the lives of two political founders of the United States and discusses their impact on the emerging political institutions of the bourgeois republic. In Russian.

Reference: 100
Author: Peck, Ira
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Offer ... And the Issue of Book Banning."
Publisher: Senior Scholastic
Volume: 115
Date: (October 15, 1982)
Extent: 21-23.

Notes: Present efforts to ban certain books from schools and libraries are not new. TJ's political enemies objected to the national acquisition of his collection containing "books of an atheistic, irreligious, and immoral character."

Reference: 942
Author: Peck, Mamie Downard
Title: Thomas Jefferson and His Home, Monticello
Publisher: Marr Publishing
Place of Publication: Corsicana, Texas
Date: (1928)
Extent: none given

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

Reference: 434
Author: Peden, William
Title: "Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)"
Publication: Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900, ed. Robert Bain and Joseph M. Flora.
Publisher: Greenwood,
Place of Publication: Westport CT:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 268-76.

Notes: Biographical sketch emphasizing TJ's diversity.

Reference: 510
Author: Peden, William
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: The Man as Reflected in His Account Books."
Publication: Virginia Quarterly Review
Volume: 64
Date: (1988)
Extent: 686-94.

Notes: Discusses the various ways in which TJ's account books and pocket diaries give insight into the private man so rarely glimpsed. Cites interesting examples which mostly increase our anticipation for the promised publication of the account books in the Papers edition.

Reference: 944
Author: Peden, William
Title: "A Book Peddler Invades Monticello."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 6
Date: (1949)
Extent: 631-36

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

Reference: 945
Author: Peden, William
Title: "The Jefferson Monument st the University of Missouri."
Publication: Missouri Historical Review
Volume: 72
Date: (1977)
Extent: 67-77

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

Reference: 3171
Author: Peden, William
Title: "Introduction" to Notes on the State of Virginia
Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina Press
Place of Publication: Chapel Hill
Date: (1954)
Extent: xi-xxv

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

Reference: 3172
Author: Peden, William
Title: "Jefferson, Freneau, and the Poems of 1809."
Publication: New Colophon
Volume: 1
Date: (1948)
Extent: 394-400

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

Reference: 3173
Author: Peden, William H.
Title: Some Aspects of Jefferson Bibliography
Publisher: Journalism Laboratory Press, Washington and Lee University
Place of Publication: Lexington, Va.
Date: (1941)
Extent: pp.22

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: 3174
Author: Peden, William H.
Title: ''Some Notes on Jefferson's Libraries"
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 1
Date: (1944)
Extent: 265-72

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: 3175
Author: Peden, William Harwood
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Book Collector."
Publication: Ph.D dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1942)
Extent: pp. 239

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

Reference: 3176
Author: Peden, William H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Charles Brockden Brown."
Publication: Maryland Quarterly
Volume: 1
Date: (1944)
Extent: 65-68

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: 3177
Author: Peden, William
Title: Twilight at Monticello
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1973)
Extent: pp. xii, 241

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

Reference: 2403
Author: Peebles, James Martin
Title: Magic. One of a series of Lectures with an Addendum of Thomas Jefferson's Religious Convictions.
Publisher: Peebles Publishing House
Place of Publication: San Francisco
Date: (1895)
Extent: pp. 16

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

Reference: 3178
Author: Peebles, John Kevan
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Architect."
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: l
Date: (1894)
Extent: 68-74

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

Reference: 348
Author: Peeler, David P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Nursery of Republican Patriots: The University of Virginia."
Publication: Journal of Church and State
Volume: 28
Date: (1986)
Extent: 79-93.

Notes: Despite later praise for the University of Virginia as a radical departure from previous conceptions of higher education, TJ envisioned a school based on a traditional old world model. His plans for the University resembled the Reformation model of an institution providing orthodox leaders to state, and to the state church, but he wanted the University to have a political mission, not a religious one. Not all of TJ's ideas came from the contemporary intellectual environment; some were part of an older cultural inheritance.

Reference: 1881
Author: Pendleton, William C.
Title: "Organization of Virginia Government; Thomas Jefferson, Father of Virginia Government" and "Organization of Government under the Constitution; Political Battles Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton"
Publication: Political History of Appalachian Virginia 1776-1927
Publisher: Shenandoah Press
Place of Publication: Dayton, Va.
Date: (1927)
Extent: 29-35, 45-97

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: 1882
Author: Penman, John Simpson
Title: The Irresistible Movement of Democracy
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1923)
Extent: 55-90

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: 3179
Author: Penney, Annette C.
Title: "Cooking with Wines at the White House"
Publication: Jefferson and Wine, ed. R. deTreville Lawrence, Sr.
Publisher: Vinifera Wine Growers Association
Place of Publication: The Plains, Va.
Date: (1976)
Extent: 56-57

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: 3180
Author: Penney, Annette C.
Title: "Jefferson and South Carolina's Horticulture"
Publication: Jefferson and Wine, ed. R. deTreville Lawrence, Sr.
Publisher: Vinifera Wine Growers Association
Place of Publication: The Plains, Va.
Date: (1976)
Extent: 86-90

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

Reference: 3181
Author: Penney, Annette C.
Title: "North Carolina: Jefferson's 'Exquisite Wine"'
Publication: Jefferson and Wine, ed. R. deTreville Lawrence, Sr.
Publisher: Vinifera Wine Growers Association
Place of Publication: The Plains, Va.
Date: (1976)
Extent: 81-85

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

Reference: 1268
Author: Pepetone, Gregory
Title: “ A Fresh Look at the Authentic American Dream,”

Notes: On the founding fathers and high culture; discusses briefly attitudes of Adams, TJ, Franklin, and Washington. Comments on TJ flawed by a confused and uninformed version of what he meant by “equality. ”

Reference: 947
Author: Perkins, John L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1822."
Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 4
Date: (1875)
Extent: 413-14

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

Reference: 3182
Author: Perkins, Mrs. C. D.
Title: "Jefferson's Monticello."
Publication: Bulletin of the Garden Club of America
Volume: 48
Date: (1960)
Extent: 30-32

Notes: Note on restoration of the gardens.

Reference: 3183
Author: Perkins, Hazlehurst B.
Title: "Restoring the 'Monticello' Gardens."
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 30
Date: (1972)
Extent: 9-13

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

Reference: 747
Author: Perreault, Jean M.
Title: "An Essay on the Prehistory of General Categories (I): T. Jefferson,"
Publication: International Classification: Journal of Theory and Practice of Universal and Special Classification.
Volume: 18
Date: (1991)
Extent: 134-42

Notes: Discovery in the library of the University of Alabama at Huntsville of a bound volume of political pamphlets from TJ's library (and the Library of Congress) encourages the author to look for principles of organization and categorization in TJ's library catalogue (ed. Gilreath and Wilson, 1990). Considers whether TJ systematically formed subclasses of larger categories as a means of organization. Examination of the sections on African and Asian geography suggests not. TJ organized information for himself, not for another reader. Gives titles of the pamphlets in the University of Alabama volume (Chapter 24, No. 263 in TJ's original catalogue.)

Reference: 570
Author: Perry, Barbara A.
Title: "Justice Hugo Black and the `Wall of Separation' Between Church and State."
Publication: Journal of Church and State
Volume: 31
Date: (Winter, 1989)
Extent: 55-72.

Notes: Claims Black is perhaps most responsible for making TJ's trope of the "wall of separation" between church and state known to the modern public. Compares Black's own religious attitudes with TJ's, finding parallels. Notes that the timing of his embrace of the "wall" doctrine more or less coincided with the New Deal revival of the Jeffersonian spirit.

Reference: 948
Author: Perry, Frances M. and Henry W. Elson
Title: Four Great American Presidents, No. 1: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln: A Book for American Readers
Publisher: J. M. Stradling & Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1905)
Extent: 111-207

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 1883
Author: Perry, Ralph Barton
Title: "The Declaration of Independence"
Publication: Puritanism and Democracy
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1944)
Extent: 117-46

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: 3185
Author: Perry, E. S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Collection of Virginia Manuscripts"
Publication: "Time and the Land: The Work of American Historians During the Generation of the American Revolution."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Cambridge
Date: (1977)
Extent: 373-423

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

Reference: 801
Author: Persky, Joseph J.
Title: "Agrarianism and the Paper System," in The Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought .
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of Publication: Baltimore
Date: (1992)
Extent: 25-60.

Notes: TJ's philosophy of “agrarian republicanism” had a profound and persistent impact on the South. His “preoccupation with dependency played a central role in that philosophy. ” From the time of the Summary View on his writings had a libertarian emphasis, although not without regard for the role of government in encouraging an economy able to sustain virtuous individuals. His agrarian ideas were behind his support for free commerce.

Reference: 14
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Beginnings of American Citizenship
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation,
Place of Publication: Charlottesville:
Date: (1981)
Extent: 13.

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: 101
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Dumas Malone: The Completion of a Monument."
Publication: Virginia Quarterly Review
Volume: 58
Date: (1982)
Extent: 26-31.

Notes: Celebrates the completion of Malone's Jefferson in His Time and claims that in the final volume a balanced portrait of TJ emerges in "the old image of the Apostle of Liberty."

Reference: 125
Author: Peterson, Sanford William
Title: "The Genesis and Development of Parliamentary Procedure in Colonial America, 1609-1801." Ph.d. dissertation. Indiana University,
Publication: DAI; 3206-A.
Volume: 44
Date: (1983)
Extent: pp.383.

Notes: Discusses TJ's contributions to evolving understanding of parliamentary procedure in America during his career as Burgess, Delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, Delegate to the Continental Congress, and President of the Senate. Uses TJ's notes from his "Parliamentary Pocketbook" which led up to his Manual . Argues for an emergence of colonial rules of order entirely unlike those of the Houses of Commons or Lords and contends there is no direct evidence for transportation in fact, language, or substance of the English rules of order to the colonies. Includes Giles Gray's transcription of and notes to TJ's "Parliamentary Pocketbook."

Reference: 156
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Jefferson, Madison, and Church State Separation"
Publication: Conceived in Conscience: An Analysis of Contemporary Church-State Relations, ed. Richard A. Rutyna and John W. Kuehl.
Publisher: Donning,
Place of Publication: Norfolk:
Date: (1983)
Extent: 34-42.

Notes: Sees policy of church-state relations as resulting from rationalistic theory mixed with the practical experience of religious pluralism. Points out two versions of the purpose of religious freedom: to protect the state from church interference and to protect religious life from the secular state. TJ's Statute was passed with support from both points of view; he upheld the former, secular-Enlightenment version, but Madison in his "Memorial and Remonstrance" appealed to both arguments.

Reference: 294
Author: Peterson, Merrill D., ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography.
Publisher: Scribners,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1986)
Extent: xiii, 513.

Notes: Individual essays by various authorities on TJ and his age, described individually in the section below. Each essay covers a different aspect of TJ, and their conjunction offers the interesting example of various experts about TJ and his times implicitly modifying and correcting one another. A worthwhile volume.

Reference: 349
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Jefferson as Constitutional Theorist."
Publication: Society.
Volume: 24
Date: (November/December, 1986)
Extent: 49-52.

Notes: Argues that TJ "made the Constitution the polestar of his politics, aligning its principles with those of aspiring American democracy, with momentous consequences for the future of the republic." He had been a keen student of the British Constitution, and in his proposals for the Virginia constitution in 1776 he advanced radical notions of constituent sovereignty and of constitutional change by popular motion. He remained true to his beliefs that only the people could change the constitution and remained suspicious of change by judicial construction or interpretation.

Reference: 350
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution."
Publication: This Constitution
Volume: 13
Date: (1986)
Extent: 12-17.

Notes: Points out that TJ was an advocate of strong government in 1787, but, partly because he was in Europe where tyranny rather than anarchy was the problem, he was initially shocked by the Constitution. His call for a bill of rights unwittingly played into the hands of those who wanted to use the demand for a bill of rights as a way to delay or defeat ratification, but he in fact wanted speedy ratification by nine states, then an amendment with a bill of rights in order to bring in the remaining states. Suggests that the dominant feature of TJ's constitutional theory was the juxtaposition of a belief in "strict construction" to limit the expansion of federal power along with a readiness to accommodate change with the consent of the people. He favored periodic revision and reform through institutionalized change more than any other of his contemporaries, but disliked judicial supremacy in interpreting the constitution because the judges were not answerable to the people.

Reference: 389
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Jefferson and Madison & the Making of Constitutions.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Place of Publication: Charlottesville:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 17.

Notes: Address given at a conference in honor of the late Adrienne Koch discussing the give and take between Madison and TJ. Describes TJ as the bolder thinker, more speculative, better generalizer and synthesizer, and more easily captivated by dreams of progress; Madison was more intellectually penetrating and probing and the more sagacious student of politics. Madison's concern for the rights of property and concern for some of the "infirmities of popular government" led him to disagree with a number of TJ's favorite ideas, including the periodic revision of constitutions. Claims the 49th Federalist paper reads TJ a lecture on this subject. Suggests that while both men opposed Hamilton's appeal to "implied powers" in order to justify incorporating a national bank, Madison was more receptive than TJ to construction of the Constitution as an adaptive principle, whereas TJ in later years protested the authority of the Supreme Court and desired a popular convention to amend the Constitution.

Reference: 390
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Religious Liberty and the American Tradition.
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Institute for the Study of Religious Freedom,
Place of Publication: Fredericksburg, VA:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 16, [4].

Notes: Speech commemorating the Statute for Religious Freedom. Claims that TJ had "a large and liberal vision of a new republican order, in which religious freedom formed an essential part." Madison's "Memorial and Remonstrance" is an exposition of the philosophy of the Statute, and TJ's Bill for the More General Diffusion of knowledge is an important complement to it.

Reference: 435
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Jefferson, The West and the Enlightenment Vision."
Publication: Wisconsin Magazine of History
Volume: 70
Date: (1987)
Extent: 270-80.

Notes: Based on author's Wisconsin Jefferson Lecture of June 24, 1986. For a general audience, covers the involvement with the West of the "premier exponent of the American Enlightenment," beginning with the provisions concerning western lands in his draft constitution for Virginia (the only articles that did find their way into Virginia's frame of government). Also discusses his role in the Ordinance of 1784, his impact on the land ordinance of 1785, and the Lewis and Clark expedition. Well-informed, thorough, but nothing new.

Reference: 436
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution."
Publication: Community, Technical, and Junior College Journal
Volume: 59
Date: (August/ September, 1987)
Extent: 12-16.

Notes: See article of the same title published in 1986 in This Constitution and listed above.

Reference: 469
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American History.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1988)
Extent: xviii, 373.

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: 511
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Founders, and Constitutional Change" in The American Founding: Essays on the Formation of the Constitution, ed. J. Jackson Barlow, Leonard W. Levy, and Ken Masugi.
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1988)
Extent: 275-94.

Notes: After pointing to the basic notion of the "consent of the governed," contends that the idea of orderly constitutional change was an American invention in the age of the democratic revolution and broke sharply with both classical republican and Lockean theory. TJ opposed constitutional change by way of construction or interpretation by either executive or judicial branches because of the absence of express popular consent to such changes (not for him Madison's "tacit assent"). He favored instead popular conventions to amend the constitution in order to suit the needs of each generation; attractive as his openness to formal constitutional change by the people is, however, in today's fragmented society, where there is little consensus of belief or even consciousness of first principles, the classic constitution may be the surest authority we can possess.

Reference: 512
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution."
Publication: Tocqueville Review
Volume: 9
Date: (1988)
Extent: 15-25.

Notes: Argues that TJ fully understood the world wide implications of the American Revolution after he went to France; he moved from rejection of the European political scene to support of the French Revolution. When Napoleon betrayed the promise of the Revolution, as he thought, America became the incarnation of the democratic ideal which Tocqueville rediscovered a generation later. The impact of the French Revolution on TJ and on American politics exposes limitations of both the consensus historians, to whom "the revolution is simply irrelevant to America," and to the ideological historians who trace the descent of civic humanism, the whig tradition, etc., thus providing no category for the revolution.

Reference: 536
Author: Peterson, Merrill D., ed.
Title: Visitors to Monticello.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Place of Publication: Charlottesville:
Date: (1989)
Extent: ix, 210.

Notes: Reprints accounts of various visitors to Monticello from 1780 to 1984. A general introduction and a brief note to each selection establish historical and cultural contexts, and the reports are themselves often informative in various ways. The early ones show some unusual glimpses of TJ at home and responding warmly (or warily in some cases) to his guests; the later visitors' accounts offer some index to his changing reputation. Most of the selections offer important facts about the original state of the house and its subsequent transformations.

Reference: 685
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution of the Mind,"
Publication: Archives of Dermatology
Volume: 112
Date: (1976)
Extent: 1637-41.

Notes: TJ envisioned an American Revolution of mind, understood as progress in learning, science, and the arts, as well as a revolution in government. Brief account of his intellectual interests.

Reference: 944
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Afterword," in Jeffersonian Legacies , ed. Onuf.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: 457-64.

Notes: Reflections on the 1992 "Jeffersonian Legacies" Conference in Charlottesville that resulted in the essays contained in this volume. Concludes that James Madison got it right when he judged that "the ironies, paradoxes, and contradictions in Jefferson's life and thought, so much dwelled upon by scholars, mattered little in the light of this fundamental harmony and consistency" of his philosophy of human rights.

Reference: 945
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Jefferson's Legacy"
Publication: The Magazine Antiques
Volume: 144
Date: (July, 1993)
Extent: 54-57.

Notes: The chief legacy is his philosophy of fundamental human rights and as a culture hero (architect, scientist, etc.).

Reference: 1075
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Jefferson and Religious Freedom"
Publication: The Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 274
Date: (December, 1994)
Extent: 112-24.

Notes: Recounts historical circumstances behind TJ's formulation of the Statute of Religious Freedom and argues for the positive results of an absolute separation of church and state and reaffirms TJ's defense of an individual's natural right to pursue religious truth according to the light of his or her own mind. Warns against present day efforts to undermine these principles.

Reference: 1076
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: The Architect of Democracy"
Publication: Social Education
Volume: 58
Date: (October, 1994)
Extent: 359-62.

Notes: Biographical, with suggested learning activities, not all of them equally helpful or practical for students lacking the author's wide range of knowledge.

Reference: 1113
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Jefferson Memorial: An Essay .
Publisher: National Park Service
Place of Publication: Washington, D. C.
Date: (1995)
Extent: pp. 47.

Notes: An interpretive guide to the Jefferson Memorial. Illustrated.

Reference: A60
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Freedom and the Crossroads of Politics, 1789-1801"
Publication: Freedom in America: A 200-Year Perspective, ed. Norman A. Graebner.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Place of Publication: University Park:
Date: (1977)
Extent: 54-73.

Notes: Claims that American freedom was consolidated and preserved as a result of the political controversies epitomized in the clash between TJ and Hamilton. Freedom triumphs in the revolution of 1800; the usual story.

Reference: 949
Author: Peterson, Arnold
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Reviling of the Great
Publisher: New York Labor News Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1949)
Extent: 9-18

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

Reference: 950
Author: Peterson, Helen Stone
Title: "The President's Daughters."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 13
Date: (1963)
Extent: 18-22

Notes: Biographical sketch of Martha and Maria.

Reference: 951
Author: Peterson, Maud Howard
Title: "The Home of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Munsey's Magazine
Volume: 20
Date: (1899)
Extent: 608-19

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

Reference: 952
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue
Publisher: Univ. of Georgia Press
Place of Publication: Athens
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. xiv, 146

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: 953
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue."
Publication: Wilson Quarterly
Volume: l
Date: (1976)
Extent: 108-29

Notes: Adapted from the previous item.

Reference: 954
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Bowers, Roosevelt, and the 'New Jefferson'."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 34
Date: (1958)
Extent: 530-43

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: 955
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Henry Adams on Jefferson the President."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 39
Date: (1963)
Extent: 187-201

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: 956
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: The Portable Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1975)
Extent: xi-xli

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

Reference: 957
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "The Jefferson Image, 1829."
Publication: American Quarterly
Volume: 3
Date: (1951)
Extent: 204-20

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

Reference: 958
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, 1826-1861."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Harvard Univ
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1950)
Extent: pp. 404

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

Reference: 959
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: The Jefferson Image in the American Mind
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1960)
Extent: pp. x, 548

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: 960
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Patriots, The American Revolution Generation of Genius, ed. Virginius Dabney
Publisher: Athenaeum
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1975)
Extent: 79-81

Notes: no note

Reference: 961
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Brief Life"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence, ed. Lally Weymouth
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1973)
Extent: 13-38

Notes: no note

Reference: 962
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution
Publication: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission
Place of Publication: Williamsburg
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp.ix,77

Notes: no note

Reference: 963
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Dimensions of Liberty, 1776-1976. A Poynter Pamphlet
Publication: The Poynter Center
Place of Publication: Bloomington, Ind.
Date: (1975)
Extent: pp. 12

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

Reference: 964
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, A Biography
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1970)
Extent: pp. xvi, 1072

Notes: The best one volume biography.

Reference: 965
Author: Peterson, Merrill D., ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, A Profile
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1967)
Extent: pp. xxii, 263

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

Reference: 1884
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Process and Personality in Jefferson's Administration."
Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 7
Date: (1979)
Extent: 189-98

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: 1885
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and American National Policy, 1783-1793."
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1964)
Extent: pp. 30

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

Reference: 1886
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Commercial Policy, 1783-1793."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 22
Date: (1965)
Extent: 584-610

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: 1887
Author: Peterson, Norma Lois, ed.
Title: The Defence of Norfolk in 1807 as Told by William Tatham to Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake
Place of Publication: Chesapeake, Va.
Date: (1970)
Extent: pp. xiv, 118

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

Reference: 2404
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "The American Scholar: Emerson and Jefferson"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson and the World of Books
Publisher: Library of Congress
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1977)
Extent: 23-33

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: 2405
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: Jefferson's 'Consent of the Governed': Convolutions of a Doctrine. An Address Delivered at Monticello on April 13, 1963
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1963)
Extent: pp. (17)

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: 2406
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Sovereignty of the Living Generation."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 52
Date: (1976)
Extent: 437-47

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: 2407
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Enlightenment: Reflections on Literary Influence."
Publication: Lex et Scientia
Volume: 11
Date: (1975)
Extent: 89-127

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: 2408
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the National Purpose."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 105
Date: (1961)
Extent: 517-20

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: 3186
Author: Peterson, Helen Stone
Title: "Francis Gilmer's Mission."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 14
Date: (1964)
Extent: 5-11

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

Reference: 3187
Author: Peterson, Martin Severin and Marvin Paul Grim
Title: "The Farmer Who Founded Democracy; Thomas Jefferson Rotated Crops and Went Through Farm Depressions at Monticello."
Publication: Wallace's Farmer
Volume: 54
Date: (1929)
Extent: 6, 17

Notes: no note

Reference: 3188
Author: Peterson, Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia."
Publication: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Volume: 7
Date: (1978)
Extent: 49-62

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

Reference: 966
Author: Pettengill, Samuel B.
Title: Jefferson, The Forgotten Man
Publisher: America's Futures Inc
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1938)
Extent: pp. xvii, 249

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: 3189
Author: Pevler, Herman H.
Title: Education: Jefferson and Today, An Address....
Publisher: Old Dominion Chapter Public Relations Society of America
Place of Publication: Roanoke, Va.
Date: (1968)
Extent: pp. 8

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

Reference: 967
Author: Pew, Marlen
Title: "Monticello Free Press Shrine Dedicated by Distinguished Newspapermen."
Publication: Editor and Publisher
Volume: 74
Date: (1931)
Extent: 5-6, 56-57

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

Reference: A61
Author: Pfeffer, Leo
Title: "The Revolution in Virginia"
Publication: Church, State, and Freedom
Publisher: Beacon Press,
Place of Publication: Boston:
Date: (1953)
Extent: 93-102.

Notes: Describes the passage of TJ's Virginia Statute for Freedom of Religion as an expression of his unswerving "devotion to the principle of complete independence of religion and government." A prominent exponent of the "broad" interpretation of the First Amendment, Pfeffer and his portrayal of TJ have come under some attack from conservative proponents in favor of a narrower view of the limits on governmental relations with religion. Despite some enthusiastic overstatement (such as that quoted above) which opens him to criticism, he seems to give a more accurate account of TJ than most of his critics.

Reference: 1888
Author: Phau, Donald
Title: "The Treachery of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: The Campaigner
Volume: 13
Date: (1980)
Extent: 4-32

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: 1889
Author: Phayre, Ignatius [Fitzgerald, William George]
Title: "The Apostle of Unrestraint"
Publication: Can America Last? A Survey of the Emigrant Empire from the Wilderness to World Power, Together with Its Claims to "Sovereignty" in the Western Hemisphere from Pole to Pole
Publisher: J. Murray
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1933)
Extent: 127-41

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

Reference: 239
Author: Phelan, Joseph Richard
Title: "Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and the Foundations of American Republicanism." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Toronto,
Publication: DAI 1044-A.
Volume: 47
Date: (1985)

Notes: Notes the tendency of recent scholarship to deny the significance of the Declaration as either the expression of the dominant political thought of the Revolution or of the principles upon which American democracy rests. Argues against this that the Declaration embodies the republican spirit of the Revolution which TJ and the other founders held to be essential to healthy political life and viable self-government. Explores the extent to which TJ's statesmanship was concerned with preserving this spirit from decay or oblivion after the Revolution.

Reference: 2409
Author: Phelps, Wiliam Lyon
Title: "As I Like It."
Publisher: Scribner's
Volume: 90
Date: (1931)
Extent: 321-23

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: 157
Author: Phifer, Gregg
Title: "Two Inaugurals: A Second Look."
Publication: Southern Speech Communications Journal
Volume: 48
Date: (1983)
Extent: 375-85.

Notes: Critiques Bert E. Bradley's essay of this year (see above), contending that comparison between TJ and Reagan speeches is suspect because "even when the words look alike, the social setting makes it unlikely that Jefferson and Reagan meant the same thing." Concedes the difficulty of scholarly objectivity when dealing with controversial contemporary issues, but claims that it is important to look not just at what is said in a literal sense, but at what is done, at the difference in settings, the difference in times.

Reference: 3190
Author: Philbrick, Thomas
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: American Literature 1764-1789 The Revolutionary Years, ed. Everett Emerson
Publisher: Univ. of Wisconsin Press
Place of Publication: Madison
Date: (1977)
Extent: 145-69

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

Reference: 968
Author: Philips, Edith
Title: Louis Hue Girardin and Nicholas Gouin Dufief and Their Relations with Thomas Jefferson: An Unknown Episode of the French Emigration in America
Publication: The Johns Hopkins Studies In Romance Literatures and Languages
Volume: Extra Volume No. 111
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
Place of Publication: Baltimore
Date: (1926)
Extent: pp. 8, 75

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: 969
Author: Phillips, Edward Hake
Title: "Timothy Pickering's 'Portrait' of Thomas Jefferson."
Publisher: Essex Institute Historical Collections
Volume: 94
Date: (1958)
Extent: 309-27

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: 1890
Author: Phillips, James Duncan
Title: "Jefferson's 'Wicked Tyrannical Embargo."
Publication: New England Quarterly
Volume: 18
Date: (1945)
Extent: 466-78

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

Reference: 1891
Author: Phillips, P. Lee
Title: "The Jeffersonian States."
Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 52
Date: (1918)
Extent: 343-44

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

Reference: A62
Author: Phipps, William E.
Title: "Jefferson on Political Obligation."
Publication: Journal of the West Virginia Philosophical Society
Volume: 12
Date: (Spring, 1977)
Extent: 1-6.

Notes: Claims that TJ believed the natural right of self-preservation imposed an obligation to protect the lives of others, and therefore citizens have the duty to change a government that has abrogated the social contract. He held that political obligation could be strengthened by developing a well-educated citizenry, encouraging democratic participation, and limiting government. States that he can be faulted for limiting political participation to white males and for his view that national sovereignty is ultimate. Does not clearly or convincingly demonstrate that TJ had a sense of "political obligation" which worked in terms of one person's responsibility toward another as claimed here; instead, the obligation is to defend liberty, something rather different.

Reference: 3191
Author: Phipps, Frances
Title: "Jefferson's Notes on Virginia"
Publication: Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens
Publisher: Hawthorn Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1972)
Extent: 181-87

Notes: Minor note on useful plants and gardening.

Reference: 839
Author: Piñero, José Maria López and Thomas Glick
Title: El megaterio de Bru y el presidente Jefferson: Una Relación Insospechada en Los Albores de la Paleontología .
Publisher: Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Istóricos sobre la Ciencia
Place of Publication: Valencia
Date: (1993)
Extent: pp. 157.

Notes: Thorough account of the work of the Spanish Royal Cabinet of Natural History's anatomist and illustrator, Juan Bautista Bru, on the megatherium or giant ground sloth and of TJ's paleontological studies a few years later on the megalonyx, basically the same animal. (TJ thought, or hoped, it was a ferocious carnivore.). William Carmichael had communicated information to TJ about Bru's work, but when TJ came to write up his own study, he apparently forgot about Bru's specimens which gave more evidence than the single piece he had to work with. Put's Bru's work in the context of contemporary paleontological studies in Spain and TJ's in the context of his growning interest in the American fossil record. Print's Bru's 1793 description, Carmichael's report, and TJ's account in appendices. In Spanish.

Reference: 3196
Author: Pi-Sunyer, Oriol
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Reluctant Manufacturer."
Publication: Janus
Volume: 51
Date: (1964)
Extent: 226-34

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: 3192
Author: Pickens, Buford
Title: "Mr. Jefferson as Revolutionary Architect."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 34
Date: (1975)
Extent: 257-79

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: 437
Author: Pierard, Richard V.
Title: "Separation of Church and State: Figment of an Infidel's Imagination?"
Publication: Faith and Freedom: A Tribute to Franklin H. Littell, ed. Richard Libowitz.
Publisher: Pergamon Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 143-50.

Notes: Responds to W. A. Criswell's denunciation of TJ's belief in separation of church and state by showing that Criswell thus repudiates his own Baptist heritage. (Criswell is a fundamentalist Baptist minister in Dallas who in 1960 had questioned John F. Kennedy's suitability as a Catholic to be president.) Points out further that such a position also ignores the idea's deep roots in the nation's history and its encouragement of religious devotion and diversity.

Reference: 438
Author: Pierard, Richard V.
Title: "Separation of Church and State in the United States and German Constitutions."
Publication: Fides et Historia
Volume: 19
Date: (June-July, 1987)
Extent: 47-62.

Notes: Comparing U. S. church-state policy as defined by TJ's separationist model (although that is currently under some attack) with the German accommodationist policy suggests that state assistance is actually harmful to the spiritual life of the church, as Madison asserted.

Reference: A63
Author: Pierard, Richard V.
Title: "Faith of Our Fathers: Some Post-Bicentennial Reflections."
Publication: Covenant Quarterly
Volume: 35
Date: (November 1977)
Extent: 15-25.

Notes: Suggests that some evangelical publicists have exaggerated the Christian commitment of some of the founding fathers. Discusses the deism of Franklin, TJ, and Washington, and warns against distortion of the past in the interest of finding Christian roots. TJ "can in no way be classified as a Christian founding father."

Reference: 1892
Author: Pierce, D. T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on Cuba."
Publication: Public Opinion
Volume: 24
Date: (1898)
Extent: 454-55

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

Reference: 3193
Author: Pierce, E. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Violin."
Publication: Etude
Volume: 47
Date: (1929)
Extent: 684-85

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 970
Author: Pierson, Hamilton W.
Title: "Jefferson at Monticello."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 5
Date: (1861)
Extent: 366-69

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

Reference: 3194
Author: Pierson, William H.
Title: "American Neoclassicism, The Idealistic Phase: Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: American Buildings and Their Architects: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: Garden City, N.Y.
Date: (1970)
Extent: 286-334

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

Reference: 3195
Author: Pierson, William H., Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Educator and Architect
Publisher: Williams College
Place of Publication: Williamstown, Mass.
Date: (1963)
Extent: pp. 8

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

Reference: 686
Author: Pieschel, Bridget Smith
Title: "The Rhetoric of Degeneration from Bradford to Cooper."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama
Publisher: DAI 50/08, p. 2489.
Date: (1989)

Notes: In a study of early concerns about social and moral decay in America, one chapter discusses TJ's preoccupation with purity of government and his fears that it is threatened both by the degenerate influence of the black race and by a wilderness he supposedly fears and hates.

Reference: 972
Author: Pilling, Ron
Title: "'... Permit Me Again to Suggest That You Receive the Olive Branch ...'."
Publication: American History Illustrated
Volume: 15
Date: (1980)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 973
Author: Pitts, Carolyn
Title: "Washington, Jefferson, and Lafayette in Germantown."
Publication: Germantowne Crier
Volume: 1
Date: (1949)
Extent: 11-12

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

Reference: 1893
Author: Plaisted, Thais M.
Title: Thomas Jefferson Parliamentarian: With Annotated Citation Bibliography
Publication: The Author
Place of Publication: Los Angeles
Date: (1978)
Extent: pp. 47

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: 3197
Author: Pleasants, Samuel A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Educational Philosopher."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 111
Date: (1967)
Extent: 1-4

Notes: Surveys TJ's activities to encourage education.

Reference: 687
Author: Pleshkov, V. N.
Title: "Amerikanskaia Diplomaticheskaia Medal' 1792 g." [An American Diplomatic Medal of 1792].
Publication: Novaia i Noveishaia Istoriia [USSR].
Volume: 4
Date: (1988)
Extent: 210-14.

Notes: Describes TJ's role during the beginning period of US diplomacy in regard to the question of presents made to foreign diplomats. Detailed description of the rare 1792 diplomatic medal made for such purposes; gives the history of its production in France. In Russian.

Reference: 2410
Author: Plochl, Willibald M.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Author of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom."
Publication: The Jurist
Volume: 3
Date: (1943)
Extent: 182-230

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: 439
Author: Plotnik, Art
Title: "Jefferson-gate!"
Publication: American Libraries
Volume: 18
Date: (1987)
Extent: 980.

Notes: Discusses Charles Goodrum's mystery, The Best Cellar , which hypothesizes that the original Library of Congress collection was not totally destroyed by the British in 1814 but that its survival was hushed up by friends of TJ who wanted to "slip one great chunk of money" to him. There appears to be some evidence for the rescue of some of the books in the original collection, although they have now disappeared.

Reference: 974
Author: Plumer, William
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Company."
Publication: Historical N