Thomas Jefferson : a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writings about him (1826-1980)

© 1983, Frank Shuffelton, editor
Print version published by Garland Publishing (New York, 1983).

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1951
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Writings about Jack Jouett's Ride and Tarleton's Raid on Charlottesville; Compiled August 1951, from materials in the University of Virginia Library, for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation at the request of Frank McCarthy."

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Library
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 3
Reference: 35

1951
Name: Anonymous
Title: "On Time with Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 56
Date: 1951
Pages: 46
Notes: Note on the great clock at Monticello.
Reference: 3153

1951
Name: Butterfield , Lyman
Title: "The Dream of Benjamin Rush: The Reconciliation of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Yale Review
Volume: 40
Date: 1951
Pages: 297-319
Notes: Good account of how Rush fostered the reconciliation of TJ and Adams
Reference: 219

1951
Name: Bryan , Mina R.
Title: "Some General Observations of Jefferson Manuscripts."

Publication: Autograph Collector's Journal
Volume: 4
Date: 1951
Pages: 12-16
Notes: Offers information on his writing habits and his various systems for duplicating his letters, particularly the copying press and the polygraph. He began to use the press in 1785 and turned to the polygraph in 1804, after which copies are sometimes difficult to distinguish from originals.
Reference: 2633

1951
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson and Music."

Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 56
Date: 1951
Pages: 25
Notes: Musical artifacts at Monticello.
Reference: 2921

1951
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: A Geranium for Lyman

Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
City: Princeton
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 6
Notes: Farewell note to Lyman Butterfield, recalls TJ's gift to Margaret Bayard Smith of a potted geranium when he left Washington in 1809.
Reference: 161

1951
Name: Bar , Max
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, eine Entwicklungsgeschichte seiner demokratischen Ideen."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: University of Erlangen
Date: 1951
Pages: none given
Reference: 2123

1951
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: Thomas Jefferson Survives

Publication: American Scholar
Volume: 20
Date: 1951
Pages: 163-73
Notes: Even so, few of the voices now claiming TJ's authority are authentic echoes of his.
Reference: 170

1951
Name: Bonger , Hendrik
Title: Leraar der Mensenrechten: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Van Loghum Slaterus
City: Arnhem
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 73
Notes: On his work for civil rights with focus on years 1775-76.
Reference: 1405

1951
Name: Brown , Esther Ernestine
Title: The French Revolution and the American Man of Letters

Publication: University of Missouri Studies
Volume: Vol. 24, No. 1.
Publisher: Curators of the Univ. of Missouri
City: Columbia
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 171
Notes: TJ discussed passim; argues that after his election to the presidency he was "able in his thinking to detach the principles of democracy from the French Revolution and attach them solely to America, where he believed they were assured by the Republican victory" of 1800.
Reference: 2156

1951
Name: Brooks , Van Wyck
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Man of Letters."

Publication: American Academy of Arts and Letters, Academy Papers
Volume: 2
Date: (1951)
Pages: 174-82
Notes: Character sketch, praising TJ as a prophetic idealist.
Reference: 2619

1951
Name: Ferguson , Eugene S.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Dry Docks."

Publication: American Neptune
Volume: 11
Date: (1951)
Pages: 108-14
Notes: Details, both technical and political, on TJ's proposal to build a covered drydock at Washington large enough to hold 12 Constitution-class frigates.
Reference: 2788

1951
Name: Flower , Milton E.
Title: "Letter from Henry S. Randall to James Parton on Jefferson and the 'Dusky Sally Story"'

Publication: James Parton, The Father of Modern Biography
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
City: Durham, NC
Date: 1951
Pages: 236-39
Notes: Prints in full the letter accusing Peter Carr of being Sally Hemings' lover; Randall's authority was Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
Reference: 447

1951
Name: Dresser , Louisa
Title: "A Life Portrait of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin
Volume: 17
Date: 1951
Pages: 9-10
Notes: Note on the St. Memin drawing.
Reference: 2758

1951
Name: Foley , Donald J.
Title: "Two Presidents Who Loved to Garden."

Publication: Horticulture
Volume: 29
Date: 1951
Pages: 43
Notes: Note on TJ and Washington as gardeners.
Reference: 2794

1951
Name: Floyd , Mildred D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Atlanta Univ.
City: Atlanta
Date: 1951
Pages: none given
Reference: 1603

1951
Name: Glass , Anna Cleghorne
Title: "Poplar Forest, Home of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 85
Date: (1951)
Pages: 761-62
Reference: 480

1951
Name: Dabney , William Minor.
Title: Jefferson's Albemarle; History of Albemarle County, Virginia, 1727-1819; PhD dissertation

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1951
Pages: 228
Reference: 330

1951
Name: Eaton , Clement
Title: "A Mirror of the Southern Colonial Lawyer: The Fee Books of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Waightstill Avery."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 8
Date: (1951)
Pages: 520-34
Notes: Discusses TJ's conduct of his law practice.
Reference: 398

1951
Name: Foote , Henry Wilder
Title: "Introduction"

Publication: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. By Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Beacon Press
City: Boston
Date: 1951
Pages: 7-32
Notes: Discusses Priestley's influence on TJ's views and the evolution of the Life and Morals out of the Syllabus of 1803. Useful.
Reference: 2230

1951
Name: Ford , John Cuthbert
Title: "The Natural Law and 'the Pursuit of Happiness."

Publication: Notre Dame Lawyer
Volume: 26
Date: (1951)
Pages: 429-61
Notes: Examines the origins and implications of the phrase in the Declaration and compares it as a statement of natural law right to scholastic theory.
Reference: 2233

1951
Name: Kocher , Alfred Lawrence and Howard Dearstyne
Title: "Discovery of Foundations for Jefferson's Addition to the Wren Building."

Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 10
Date: 1951
Pages: 28-31
Notes: The Revolutionary War put a stop to building operations. Good brief account of the proposed addition designed by TJ.
Reference: 2998

1951
Name: Logan , Rayford W., ed.
Title: Memoirs of a Monticello Slave: As Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840's by Isaac, One of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

Publisher: Tracy W. MacGregor Library
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 45
Notes: Published simultaneously in WMQ. 3rd ser. 8(1951), 561-82. Introduction discusses the history of this mss. from the Univ. of Virginia Library and compares it to an apparently later mss. in the William and Mary Library. Isaac claimed that Sally Hemings and some other of the Hemings "was old Mr. Wayles' children."
Reference: 708

1951
Name: Mayer , Frederick
Title: "Jefferson"

Publication: A History of American Thought, An Introduction
Publisher: Wm. C. Brown
City: Dubuque
Date: 1951
Pages: 105-19
Notes: Simplistic sketch of TJ's ideas.
Reference: 2358

1951
Name: Lancaster , Clay
Title: "Jefferson's Architectural Indebtedness to Robert Morris."

Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 10
Date: 1951
Pages: 3-10
Notes: Morris, through his Rural Architecture (1755), influenced TJ for the first Monticello and to a lesser extent, the west pavilions at the University of Virginia.
Reference: 3006

1951
Name: Mason , F. Van Wyck
Title: "Independence Forever!"

Publication: Collier's
Volume: 128
Date: 1951
Pages: 14, 73-75
Notes: Death of TJ and Adams.
Reference: 801

1951
Name: Martin , Asa E.
Title: "The Sage of Monticello: Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1809 July 4, 1826"

Publication: After the White House
Publisher: Penns Valley Publishers
City: State College, Pa.
Date: 1951
Pages: 51-75
Notes: Conventional sketch of TJ in retirement.
Reference: 797

1951
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: "The Return of a Virginian."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 27
Date: (1951)
Pages: 528-43
Notes: Account of TJ's return from his mission to France.
Reference: 776

1951
Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: "Jefferson's Works of Art at Monticello."

Publication: Antiques
Volume: 59
Date: (1951)
Pages: 297-99
Notes: Describes the collection; Monticello as a building was "more sumptuous in its furnishings and adornments than any in the United States of its day."
Reference: 2982

1951
Name: Kinsolving , Arthur B.
Title: "The Religious Opinions of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Volume: 20
Date: (1951)
Pages: 325-27
Notes: Note claiming that TJ's "horizontal mind" is secular and not religious, and he is not to be trusted on matters concerning religion.
Reference: 2312

1951
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the Rights of Man

Publisher: Little Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. xxix, 523
Notes: Covers TJ's years in France and his service as Secretary of State, 1784-1792.
Reference: 759

1951
Name: Lorant , Stefan
Title: "The Fourth Election—1800" and "The Fifth Election— 1804"

Publication: The Presidency: A Pictorial History of the Presidential Elections from Washington to Truman
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1951
Pages: 43-65
Notes: Popular history with interesting illustrations.
Reference: 1779

1951
Name: Miller , John C.
Title: Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts.

Publisher: Little Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 253
Notes: TJ touched on throughout; pp. I69-81 focus on his role and Madison's in drawing up the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which offered the most forceful statement of the constitutional objections to the acts. Argues that their failure strengthened the Federalists' belief that public opinion was with them.
Reference: 1834

1951
Name: Oshiba , Ei
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Gakushu Bunku Co.
City: Kobe
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 191
Notes: In Japanese.
Reference: 889

1951
Name: Smith , Glenn Curtis
Title: "Notes on Thomas Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British Americans."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 59
Date: (1951)
Pages: 494-98
Notes: Uncritical description and brief account of the historical context.
Reference: 1986

1951
Name: Rice , Howard, C., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson's Gift of Fossils to the Museum of Natural History in Paris."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 95
Date: (1951)
Pages: 597-627
Notes: Account of TJ's gift in 1808 of fossils from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, to the National Institute of France; these gave Cuvier "essential evidence for his description and 'reconstruction' of two extinct species."
Reference: 3223

1951
Name: Mearns , David C.
Title: "Virginia in the History of the Library of Congress, or, Mr. Jefferson's Other Seedlings."

Publication: Virginia Library Bulletin
Volume: 16
Date: (1951)
Pages: 1-4
Reference: 3086

1951
Name: Norton , Paul
Title: "Latrobe's Ceiling for the Hall of Representatives."

Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 10
Date: 1951
Pages: 5-10
Notes: TJ and Latrobe differ over plans.
Reference: 3136

1951
Name: Smith , B. M.
Title: "Loftiest Edifices Need the Deepest Foundations: Monticello."

Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 56
Date: 1951
Pages: 58-60
Notes: Describes design and furnishings of Monticello.
Reference: 3290

1951
Name: Peterson , Merrill D.
Title: "The Jefferson Image, 1829."

Publication: American Quarterly
Volume: 3
Date: (1951)
Pages: 204-20
Notes: Analyzes the effect of the publication of the first collected edition of TJ's writings.
Reference: 957

1951
Name: Schachner , Nathan
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Appleton-Century
City: New York
Date: 1951
Pages: 2 vols. pp. xiii, 559; vii, 561-1070
Notes: An intelligent, generally sympathetic biography.
Reference: 1064

1951
Name: Zyskind , Harold
Title: "How to Read the Declaration of Independence"

Publication: Promoting Growth Toward Maturity in What Is Read, ed. William S. Gray. Supplementary Educational Monographs
Volume: Vol. 13, No. 74.
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1951
Pages: 7-12
Notes: How to lead students to see the need for interpretation.
Reference: 2107

1951
Name: Talbert , Ernest Lynn
Title: In the Spirit of Jefferson; Essays and Reviews

Publisher: Exposition
City: New York
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 68
Notes: Little on TJ; one essay calls on his authority to denounce loyalty oaths in universities; another is on "Kate Smith and Jeffersonian Democracy."
Reference: 1146

1951
Name: Wranek , William H.
Title: "Planned by Thomas Jefferson, The University of Virginia Continues to Progress Under Able Administration."

Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 15
Date: 1951
Pages: 1-15
Notes: Sketch of TJ's University; peripheral.
Reference: 3441

1951
Name: Verner , Coolie
Title: "The Maps and Plates Appearing with the Several Editions of Mr. Jefferson's 'Notes on the State of Virginia."'

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 59
Date: (1951)
Pages: 21-33
Notes: Careful bibliographical description.
Reference: 3374

1951
Name: White , Leonard D.
Title: The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801-1829

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. xiv, 572
Notes: TJ in his First Inaugural typified the position of the "old Republicans," in his Second Inaugural he typified the position of the "new Republicans" who were dominant after 1815. Although not interested in the normal procedures of day to day administration, TJ was "as skillful as his Federalist predecessors in using administrative means for far-reaching political ends." His first term was marked by successful innovations in policy and administration, but his second ended in the disaster of the Embargo. TJ's "significance in American history flows much less from his contribution to the art of administration than from his convictions about democracy."
Reference: 2081

1951
Name: Torrence , Clayton, ed.
Title: Letters of Sarah Nicholas Randolph to Hugh Blair Grigsby

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 59
Date: 1951
Pages: 315-36
Notes: TJ's great-granddaughter discusses writing an account of his life and papers in possession of the family.
Reference: 1198

1951
Name: Wranek , William. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Homebuilder."

Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 15
Date: 1951
Pages: 1-9
Notes: Sketch of the owner of Monticello.
Reference: 1336

1951
Name: Tinkcom , Margaret Bailey
Title: Caviar along the Potomac: Sir Augustus John Foster's Notes on the United States, 1804-12

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 8
Date: 1951
Pages: 68-107
Notes: See item #456
Reference: 1196

1952
Name: Anonymous
Title: "The Missing Minister."

Publication: Time
Volume: 59
Date: 1952
Pages: 74
Notes: Discovery of the Trumbull miniature given to Maria Cosway.
Reference: 3096

1952
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Americana Page."

Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 57
Date: 1952
Pages: 100
Notes: Editorial praising TJ for removing "the fanatical nonsense from self-government.
Reference: 1353

1952
Name: Butterfield , Lyman H.
Title: "Elder John Leland, Jeffersonian Itinerant."

Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 62
Date: (1952)
Pages: 155-242
Notes: Includes facsimile of "Ode to the Mammoth Cheese,..." Focus on Leland but discusses his support of TJ and relations with him.
Reference: 1460

1952
Name: Blau , Joseph
Title: "Enlightened Politics: Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Men and Movements in American Philosophy
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
City: New York
Date: 1952
Pages: 46-55
Notes: Sketch of TJ as philosopher; argues that he thinks of the moral sense in utilitarian terms and as answerable to reason and calculation. Therefore, it is not a conscience and its judgments are relative.
Reference: 2139

1952
Name: Anonymous
Title: A Virginia Gentleman's Library as Proposed by Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith in 1771 and Now Assembled in the Brush-Everard House, Williamsburg, Virginia

Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Introduction by Arthur Pierce Middleton.
Reference: 3381

1952
Name: Benjamin , Mary
Title: "More Fun!"

Publication: Collector
Volume: 65
Date: 1952
Pages: 194-95
Notes: Describes an invitation from TJ, in Meriwether Lewis' hand, to DeWitt Clinton for "dinner and chess."
Reference: 116

1952
Name: Anonymous
Title: "President Jefferson Plays Host to a Couple of Pennsylvania Dutchmen."

Publication: Pennsylvania Dutchman
Volume: 3
Date: 1952
Pages: 2
Notes: Congressman Andrew Gregg takes two Pennsylvania Germans to call on the President; sounds like folklore.
Reference: 984

1952
Name: Adair , Douglass
Title: "Rumbold's Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson's Last Words on Democracy."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 9
Date: (1952)
Pages: 521-31
Notes: Traces TJ's use of a trope used in his letter of June 24, 1826, to the mayor of Washington, D.C. to the scaffold speech of Col. Richard Rumbold a Whig martyr.
Reference: 2110

1952
Name: Brant , Irving
Title: "James Madison and His Time."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 57
Date: (1952)
Pages: 853-70
Notes: Argues that Madison was not a mere satellite of TJ as suggested by Henry Adams and others; Madison in many cases led TJ in policy making, for example in pointing out to him the political implications of the French loss of Haiti, a base of support needed if the French were to retain Louisiana.
Reference: 1431

1952
Name: Dumbauld , Edward
Title: "A Manuscript from Monticello: Jefferson's Library in Legal History."

Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 38
Date: (1952)
Pages: 389-92; 446-47
Notes: TJ's library contained valuable legal mss. and a unique copy of the Virginia statutes from 1734 to 1772. The courts often treated his library as being in effect a depository of public records. Hening's Statutes at Large were in part a result of TJ's legal and historical scholarship.
Reference: 2761

1952
Name: Dumbauld , Edward
Title: "Jefferson's Residence in Richmond."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 60
Date: (1952)
Pages: 323-26
Notes: When TJ was governor, he probably rented a house on the northwest corner of what is now the intersection of 12th and Franklin.
Reference: 381

1952
Name: Dowdey , Clifford
Title: "He Lives at Monticello."

Publication: Holiday
Volume: 12
Date: 1952
Pages: 72-73, 81, 152-57
Reference: 378

1952
Name: Gaines , William H., Jr.
Title: From Desolation to Restoration: The Story of Monticello Since Jefferson

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 1
Date: 1952
Pages: 4-8
Reference: 465

1952
Name: DeConde , Alexander
Title: "Foreclosure of a Peacemaker's Career: A Criticism of Thomas Jefferson's Diplomatic Isolation."

Publication: Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume: 15
Date: (1952)
Pages: 297-304
Notes: William Vans Murray criticizes TJ's closing of the legations at The Hague and Lisbon; DeConde portrays Murray as a conscientious diplomat, almost uniquely responsible for working out the Convention of 1800 with the French.
Reference: 1547

1952
Name: Gressman , Eugene
Title: "How Disloyal Was Thomas Jefferson?"

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 127
Date: 1952
Pages: 13-14
Notes: What a McCarthy-era loyalty board would do to TJ
Reference: 501

1952
Name: Fairley , Margaret Tynes
Title: Mr. Jefferson and the Crocus

Publisher: The Author
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. 12
Notes: Contains four poems on TJ.
Reference: 2781

1952
Name: Cunningham , Noble E., Jr.
Title: "The Jeffersonian Party to 1801: A Study of the Formation of a Party Organization."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Duke Univ.
City: Durham
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. 334
Notes: See the author's later The Jeffersonian Republicans.
Reference: 1522

1952
Name: Carey , Paul Moseley
Title: "Jefferson and Slavery."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. iv, 132
Reference: 1471

1952
Name: Cometti , Elizabeth
Title: "Maria Cosway's Rediscovered Miniature of Jefferson."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 9
Date: (1952)
Pages: 152-55
Notes: Miniature portrait by John Trumbull which TJ gave to Maria Cosway is rediscovered in Italy.
Reference: 2702

1952
Name: Lindley , Thomas F., Jr.
Title: "The Philosophical Presuppositions of Thomas Jefferson's Social Theories."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Boston Univ.
City: Boston
Date: 1952
Reference: 2333

1952
Name: Lindsey , David
Title: "George Canning and Jefferson's Embargo, 1807-1809."

Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: l
Date: 1952
Pages: 43-47
Notes: On Canning, who felt U.S. supplies and markets were not essential to the success of England's war against France.
Reference: 1775

1952
Name: Knox , Fanona
Title: "Jefferson's Choice."

Publication: Library Journal
Volume: 77
Date: (1952)
Pages: 1574-76
Notes: On the collection in the Brush-Everard house in Williamsburg based on TJ's letter to Robert Skipwith.
Reference: 2997

1952
Name: Hemphill , William Edwin
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Personal Property Taxes."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 1
Date: 1952
Pages: 18-19
Notes: Records in the State Library show taxes on land and personal property taxes which provide information on the way of life at Monticello.
Reference: 544

1952
Name: Klingberg , Frank J. and Frank W. Klingberg, eds.
Title: The Correspondence Between Henry Stephens Randall and Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1856-1861

Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. ix, 196
Notes: Randalls biography of TJ appeared in 1858; both men were ardent Jeffersonians and their correspondence is full of discussion about Randall's book and his subject.
Reference: 657

1952
Name: Kibler , James Luther
Title: "Ples for a Modern Edition of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."

Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: l
Date: 1952
Pages: 48-49
Reference: 2953

1952
Name: Little , Ralph
Title: "Portable Desks."

Publication: Decorator
Volume: 6
Date: 1952
Pages: 6-7
Notes: Describes TJ's desk and warns against accepting claims that the replicas made in 1876 are the original.
Reference: 3039

1952
Name: Martin , Edwin T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, A Scientist in the White House."

Publication: Emory University Quarterly
Volume: 8
Date: (1952)
Pages: 38-49
Notes: Discusses TJ's pursuit of his scientific interests while president.
Reference: 3074

1952
Name: McCormick , Scott, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Ideas on Education."

Publication: Davis and Elkins Historical Magazine
Volume: 5
Date: (1952)
Pages: 8-14
Notes: Conventional survey.
Reference: 3052

1952
Name: Kenney , R. D.
Title: "Chief White Hair Medal with Portrait of President Jefferson, Dated 1801."

Publication: American Numismatic Society Museum Notes
Volume: 5
Date: (1952)
Pages: 191-92
Reference: 2948

1952
Name: Martin , Edwin T.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Scientist

Publisher: Henry Schuman
City: New York
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. x, 289
Notes: Best survey of this aspect of TJ's interests; portrays him as intelligent, enthusiastic amateur with a practical bent. Emphasizes TJ's efforts to answer Buffon's theory of American degeneration, and has a chapter on Federalist attacks on TJ for being a "philosophe." Covers the range of TJ's scientific interests.
Reference: 3073

1952
Name: Judson , Clara Ingram
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Champion of the People

Publisher: Wilson and Follett
City: Chicago
Date: 1952
Pages: pp.224
Notes: Juvenile biography
Reference: 623

1952
Name: Rickey , Homer G.
Title: "Memorandum on the German Edition of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Library
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. 4
Notes: Mimeographed sheets; bibliographical note and translation of the introduction offered to the German edition (Leipzig, 1788-89), probably written by the publisher, Matthias Christian Sprengel.
Reference: 3227

1952
Name: Parks , Edd Winfield
Title: "Jefferson's Attitude Toward History."

Publication: Georgia Historical Quarterly
Volume: 36
Date: (1952)
Pages: 336-41
Notes: Conventional survey.
Reference: 3166

1952
Name: Padover , Saul K.
Title: Jefferson

Publisher: New American Library
City: New York
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. 192
Notes: Abridged by the author from the version published in 1942.
Reference: 898

1952
Name: Parks , Edd Winfield
Title: "Jefferson as a Man of Letters."

Publication: Georgia Review
Volume: 6
Date: (1952)
Pages: 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: 3165

1952
Name: Rosen , George
Title: "Political Order and Human Health in Jeffersonian Thought."

Publication: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 26
Date: (1952)
Pages: 32-44
Notes: Argues that TJ and Benjamin Rush saw an analogy between the health of the individual and the health of his society, and they viewed (optimistically) the natural world in which man saw himself contained.
Reference: 3235

1952
Name: Murdock , Myrtle M.
Title: "The Thomas Jefferson Memorial"

Publication: Your Memorials in Washington
Publisher: Monumental Press
City: Washington
Date: 1952
Pages: none given
Reference: 866

1952
Name: McKie , D.
Title: "A Note on Priestley in America."

Publication: Notes and Record of the Royal Society of London
Volume: 10
Date: 1952
Pages: 51-59
Notes: Prints a letter, dated March 21, 1801, from TJ to Priestley and Priestley's reply; gives historical background.
Reference: 3058

1952
Name: Shackelford , George Green, ed.
Title: "Benedict Arnold in Richmond, January 1781: His Proposal Concerning Prize Goods."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 60
Date: (1952)
Pages: 591-99
Notes: Account of Arnold's raid and TJ's response.
Reference: 1962

1952
Name: Shulim , Joseph I.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Views Napoleon."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 60
Date: (1952)
Pages: 288-304
Notes: TJ's opinions of Napoleon varied with circumstances, but he ultimately saw him as "the author of more misery and suffering to the world than any being who has ever lived before him."
Reference: 1973

1952
Name: Norton , Paul Foote
Title: "Latrobe, Jefferson and the National Capitol."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Princeton Univ.
Date: 1952
Pages: 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: 3135

1952
Name: West , Murray
Title: "Jeffersonianism."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 127
Date: 1952
Pages: 4
Notes: If TJ were here, he'd be "a good Truman Democrat."
Reference: 1284

1952
Name: Wranek , William H.
Title: "Jefferson's Mountaintop Mansion."

Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 19
Date: 1952
Pages: 33-35, 69
Notes: Description.
Reference: 3440

1952
Name: Wyllie , John Cook
Title: Jefferson's Prayer Book

Publisher: Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. (20)
Notes: Facsimile of pages containing genealogical and other information from the Book of Common Prayer belonging to Peter, then Thomas Jefferson; commentary and bibliographical note.
Reference: 2508

1952
Name: Verner , Coolie and P. J. Conkwright
Title: "The Printing of Jefferson's Notes, 1793-94."

Publication: Studies in Bibliography
Volume: 5
Date: (1952)
Pages: 201-03
Notes: Mathew Carey engaged Parry Hall to print the second American edition of Notes.
Reference: 3378

1952
Name: Verner , Coolie
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Distributes His Notes, A Preliminary Checklist of First Editions."

Publication: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Volume: 56
Date: (1952)
Pages: 159-86
Notes: How and to whom TJ sent copies of the 1st edition of Notes; varying states of the edition may suggest second thoughts on what TJ wished to include. Also printed separately, New York: New York Public Library, 1952. pp. 31.
Reference: 3375

1952
Name: Stokes , William E., Jr., ed.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Comes Home."

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 12
Date: (1952)
Pages: 46-49
Notes: Ceremonies at presentation of a copy of the Sully portrait to the Albemarle County Court House.
Reference: 1137

1952
Name: Stowe , Walter H.
Title: "The Religion of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Volume: 21
Date: (1952)
Pages: 413-15
Notes: Minor note arguing that TJ was naive for believing Christian ethics could survive loss of belief in the divinity of Christ.
Reference: 2465

1952-1959
Name: Sowerby , E. Millicent
Title: Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 5 vols.

Publisher: Library of Congress
City: Washington
Date: 1952-1959
Notes: An essential piece of scholarship. Based on TJ's catalogue of the library he sold in 1815, this adds bibliographic description of the editions or probable editions he owned and annotates the entries, usually with comments from TJ's own writings. Volume I has a preface describing the compiler's method and covers entries on civil and natural history. Volume 2 covers moral philosophy, 3 includes politics, 4 concludes entries on philosophy with citations in mathematics, astronomy, and geography and begins the entries on the fine arts. 5 concludes the fine arts entries and adds a section on sources, etc. plus an index for the whole catalogue.
Reference: 3301

1953
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Relevance of Thomas Jefferson for the Twentieth Century."

Publication: American Scholar
Volume: 22
Date: 1953
Pages: 61-76
Notes: Applauds TJ's faith in principle, in the rights of man, and in knowledge, but notes that, paradoxically, increasingly exact, predictive
Reference: 165

1953
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Iz pisem Tomasa Dzheffersona. Po stranitsam istorii."

Publication: Literaturnaya Gazeta
Date: 1953
Pages: none given
Notes: USSR; "From the letters of Thomas Jefferson. Through the pages of history."
Reference: 579

1953
Name: Baker , Gordon E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on Academic Freedom."

Publication: AAUP Bulletin
Volume: 39
Date: (1953)
Pages: 377-87
Notes: "His insistence on freedom of inquiry" is "equalled in eloquence by few;" yet at least once he "abandoned his high principles" by demanding that the University of Virginia's law professor be "uninfected with Federalist principles."
Reference: 2122

1953
Name: Boorstin , Daniel J.
Title: "The American Revolution: Revolution Without Dogma"

Publication: The Genius of American Politics
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1953
Pages: 66-98
Notes: Discusses the implications of the Declaration, arguing, "The awareness of the peculiarity of America had not yet by any means led Jefferson to a rash desire to remake all society and institutions."
Reference: 1406

1953
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson and Architecture

Publisher: Alderman Library
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1953
Pages: 4
Notes: Mimeographed check list of materials in the Alderman Library
Reference: 23

1953
Name: Ammon , Harry
Title: "The Formation of the Republican Party in Virginia, 1789-1796."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 19
Date: (1953)
Pages: 283-310
Notes: Touches upon TJ's important but inconspicuous role in forming the Republican Party; claims Republicans attracted both anti-federalists and supporters of the Constitution.
Reference: 1354

1953
Name: Bo , Jorgen and Borge Glahn
Title: En Amerikansk Arkitekt

Publisher: Schonbergske Forlag
City: Kobenhavn
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. (28)
Notes: On TJ as architect, in Danish.
Reference: 2600

1953
Name: Betts , Edwin Morris, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, With Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings

Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press. for the American Philosophical Society
City: Princeton
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. xxii, 552
Notes: Facsimile of the Farm Book with transcription, commentary, and supporting material arranged topically. Invaluable.
Reference: 2589

1953
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson and Civil Liberties."

Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 191
Date: 1953
Pages: 52-58
Notes: Claims that the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the election of TJ in 1800 forestalled "the most powerful attempt in our history to destroy the elemental freedoms."
Reference: 1411

1953
Name: Aronson , Julian
Title: "The Impulse of Equality in Jefferson's Virginia."

Publication: Social Studies
Volume: 44
Date: (1953)
Pages: 123-28
Notes: Argues that TJ was supported by Virginia land owners in spite of and not because of his egalitarian ideas.
Reference: 1369

1953
Name: Dumbauld , Edward
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and American Constitutional Law."

Publication: Journal of Public Law
Volume: 2
Date: (1953)
Pages: 370-89
Notes: Surveys TJ's positions on constitutional law and the Constitution. Contends that he led the nation to view the Constitution as "an instrument of democracy."
Reference: 1571

1953
Name: Galtier , Gaston
Title: La viticulture d'Europe Occidentale a la veille de la Revolution francaise, d'apres les notes de voyage de Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: La journee vinicole
City: Montpellier
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 72
Notes: Examines TJ's letters and notes of travel in France in 1787 and 1788 as essential documents for understanding the state of viticulture and the wine trade just prior to the Revolution. Claims TJ was interested in wine as a connoisseur, not with any eye toward establishing wineries in America.
Reference: 2810

1953
Name: Cappon , Lester J.
Title: "Men of Albemarle and the Louisiana Purchase."

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 13
Date: (1953)
Pages: 1-22
Notes: Examines the parts played by TJ, Monroe, and Meriwether Lewis, all Albemarle men. Praises TJ's "forehanded ... timely" plans for exploration of the new territory.
Reference: 1469

1953
Name: Colbourn , Harold T.
Title: "The Saxon Heritage: Thomas Jefferson Looks at English History."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ.
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 318
Notes: Author later publishes as H. Trevor Colbourn.
Reference: 2181

1953
Name: Glenn , Frank
Title: Quotation Books from the Library of Thomas Jefferson

City: Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1953
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Offers for sale 6 volumes from TJ's library, including a copy of Volney's Ruins presented to Martha Jefferson Randolph by Nicholas Trist.
Reference: 2825

1953
Name: Crosskey , William Winslow
Title: Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States

Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1953
Pages: 2 vols. pp.xi,708;viii,711-1410
Notes: In order to explain how "our government became the queer, crippled thing which it is," contends that the original Constitution was subverted by "anti-federalist" Jeffersonians, who frustrated the establishment of a unitary system with a dominant central government by reinterpreting the Constitution according to their principles. Focus is on the early struggles in the Supreme Court, TJ. vs. Marshall, etc. and on the implications of the fourteenth amendment. Enormously documented, passionately argued legal history which will seem wrong-headed to many readers. Even so, throws light on TJ and his difficulties with the judiciary and with Marshall.
Reference: 1519

1953
Name: Hemphill , William Edwin
Title: "'In a Constant Struggle."'

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 2
Date: 1953
Pages: 8-15
Notes: How and why Virginians voted for TJ in 1800.
Reference: 1677

1953
Name: Mayo , Bernard
Title: "Lafayette and Jefferson: Twilight Reminiscences at Monticello."

Publication: Gazette of the American Friends of Lafayette
Volume: 17
Date: 1953
Pages: 3-6
Notes: Account of the visit of Lafayette to Monticello.
Reference: 807

1953
Name: Lincoln , Abraham
Title: "To Henry L. Pierce and Others"

Publication: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler
Publisher: Rutgers Univ. Press
City: New Brunswick
Date: 1953
Pages: 3:374-76
Notes: Famous letter replying to an invitation to attend a celebration in Boston of TJ's birthday; "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of a free society." Given wide circulation at the time in the Republican press; cited here in a readily available and authoritative edition.
Reference: 697

1953
Name: Lescure , Dolores
Title: "Garden Week Visitors to See Homes Designed by Jefferson."

Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 20
Date: 1953
Pages: 46
Reference: 3029

1953
Name: Lagemann , John Kord
Title: "How Jefferson Spent the First Fourth."

Publication: Colliers
Volume: 132
Date: 1953
Pages: 50-53
Notes: Fanciful sketch of events in 1776.
Reference: 680

1953
Name: Lansdale , Nelson
Title: "House on the Nickel."

Publication: House and Garden
Volume: 103
Date: 1953
Pages: 80-85
Notes: Monticello, illustrated.
Reference: 683

1953
Name: Koch , Adrienne
Title: "Power and Morals and the Founding Fathers: Jefferson."

Publication: Review of Politics
Volume: 15
Date: (1953)
Pages: 470-90
Notes: "... the right to the pursuit of happiness consists of the right to pursuit, not of material advantages, but of the life of reason and the fulfillment of the human nature." This pursuit leads to the discovery and cultivation of moral virtue, the ultimate check on the abuse of power. Points to the use of the phrase by Locke. Rpt. as "Jefferson and the Pursuit of Happiness" in Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers: Essays in the Interpretation of the American Enlightenment. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1961. 23-49.
Reference: 2317

1953
Name: McConnell , Jane and Burt.
Title: "Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Who Did not Live to See the White House"

Publication: Our First Ladies, From Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower
Publisher: Crowell
City: New York
Date: 1953
Pages: 33-41.
Notes: She "would have been proud" of TJ "had she lived;" superficial.
Reference: 731

1953
Name: Koch , Adrienne
Title: "Toward an American Philosophy."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 29
Date: (1953)
Pages: 187-97
Notes: TJ and Madison are the richest resources for a reformulation of an American philosophic tradition because of the conjunction of power and liberty at the core of their political philosophy.
Reference: 2319

1953
Name: Morison , Samuel Eliot
Title: "John Adams and Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: By Land and By Sea: Essays and Addresses by Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1953
Pages: 219-30
Notes: Comparative biographical sketches portraying their friendship; first printed in New England Society of Pennsylvania, Porty-Seventh Annual Report.
Reference: 853

1953
Name: Rogers , Robert, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Leadership of the Republican Party, January, 1797 to June, 1798."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of California
City: Berkeley
Date: 1953
Pages: none given
Reference: 1930

1953
Name: Shoemaker , Floyd C.
Title: "Remarks on Senator Allen McReynolds and the Bingham Portrait of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Missouri Historical Review
Volume: 48
Date: (1953)
Pages: 42-45
Notes: On Bingham's 1857 copy of Stuart's portrait.
Reference: 3279

1953
Name: Rosenberger , Francis Coleman, ed.
Title: Jefferson Reader: A Treasury of Writings about Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Dutton
City: New York
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 349
Notes: Interesting collection of pieces from various points of view and dealing with the many sides of TJ.
Reference: 1041

1953
Name: Robinson , Geroid T.
Title: "Small Farms and Big Machines."

Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 27
Date: 1953
Pages: 69-71
Notes: Compares TJ's agrarian ideas to those of the Russian Populists (Narodniks) and surmises that TJ would not have been hostile to cooperation among farmers, although he would certainly have opposed Soviet-style collectivization.
Reference: 3232

1953
Name: Sheean , Vincent
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy

Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 184
Notes: Juvenile biography.
Reference: 1088

1953
Name: Patterson , Caleb Perry
Title: Constitutional Principles of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Univ. of Texas Press
City: Austin
Date: 1953
Pages: 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: 1873

1953
Name: Mearns , David C.
Title: "The First White House Library."

Publication: D.C. Libraries
Volume: 24
Date: 1953
Pages: 2-7
Reference: 3084

1953
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "A French Source of Jefferson's Plan for the Prison at Richmond."

Publication: Journal of the Societ~ of Architectural Historians
Volume: 12
Date: 1953
Pages: 28-30
Notes: TJ had seen in France plans for a prison by Pierre-Gabriel Bugniet.
Reference: 3222

1953
Name: Morgan , Donald Grant
Title: "The Origins of Supreme Court Dissent."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 10
Date: (1953)
Pages: 353-77
Notes: Examines judicial career of Justice William Johnson, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1804, and his relationship with TJ.
Reference: 1845

1953
Name: 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
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 8
Reference: 3124

1953
Name: White , Leonard D.
Title: "Public Administration Under the Federalists"

Publication: The Gaspar G. Bacon Lectures on the Constitution of the United States, 1940-1950
Publisher: Boston Univ. Press
City: Boston
Date: 1953
Pages: 197-247
Notes: Examines the Hamilton-TJ feud on pp. 213-31 and concludes that Washington, TJ, and Hamilton "did not present a combination which long corresponded" to the requirements of effective administration.
Reference: 2082

1953
Name: Warren , Robert Penn
Title: Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices

Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. xii, 230
Notes: A poem in dialogue dealing with events and characters involved in the Kentucky tragedy in which TJ's nephews butchered a slave. One of the speakers is TJ. A new version was published in New York: Random House, 1979. pp. xiv, 141. This version gives Meriwether Lewis a more significant role, says Warren, and is the result of an extensive reworking of the text.
Reference: 3390

1953
Name: Von Eckardt , Ursula M.
Title: "The Inalienable Right to the Pursuit of Happiness: The Meaning of the Concept Examined in the Declaration of Independence and in Related Texts."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: New School for Social Research
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 336
Reference: 2479

1953
Name: Wertenbaker , Thomas Jefferson
Title: "Glimpses of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Emory University Quarterly
Volume: 9
Date: (1953)
Pages: 48-55
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 1283

1953
Name: Wranek , William H.
Title: "The Renovation of Jefferson's House."

Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 20
Date: 1953
Pages: 13-14, 39
Reference: 3442

1954
Name: Bellot , H. Hale
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in American Historiography."

Publication: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.
Volume: 5th ser. 4
Date: 1954
Pages: 135-55
Notes: Considers the treatment particularly after the Civil War of TJ as prophet of national democracy and the embarrassing question of his responsibility for the concept of nullification. Claims there has been no effect reinterpretation of TJ's ideas in light of the distinction drawn between allegiance to the rule of law and primary trust in the rule of the people
Reference: 113

1954
Name: Boyd , Julian P., Lyman H. Butterfield, and Walter M. Whitehill
Title: Thomas Jefferson Among the Antiquities of Southern France in 1787. A Tribute to E. Harold Hugo

Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
City: Princeton
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. (23)
Notes: Historical introduction to a letter dated March 20, 1787, from TJ to the Comtesse de Tesse on his travels in southern France and her reply.
Reference: 2608

1954
Name: Beutin , Ludwig
Title: "Hamilton und Jefferson."

Publication: Historische Zeitschrift
Volume: 177
Date: 1954
Pages: 495-516
Notes: Surveys twentieth-century historical writing on TJ and Hamilton, arguing that treatment of them reflects both the prejudices of the writers and an increasing scholarly sophistication.
Reference: 124

1954
Name: Bennett , Lerone
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Negro Grandchildren."

Publication: Ebony
Volume: 10
Date: 1954
Pages: 78-80
Notes: Descendents of Joseph Fossett, supposedly a son of Sally Hemings and TJ. Photographs.
Reference: 117

1954
Name: Abernethy , Thomas Perkins
Title: The Burr Conspiracy

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. viii, 301
Notes: Chapter XII, "Jefferson and Burr (183-98), describes TJ's uncertainty about Burr's intentions and the quality of information he was receiving; by the end of October 1806, he was ready to believe the worst about Burr's activities in the West. Chapter XIV, "The Trial in Richmond" (227-49), criticizes TJ for becoming a party to the prosecution. Best book on this subject.
Reference: 1340

1954
Name: Angle , Paul M.
Title: Jefferson Outlines a Better Democracy

Publication: By These Words; Great Documents of American Liberty Selected and Placed in Their Contemporary Settings
Publisher: Rand McNally
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: 152-59
Notes: Brief description of the first inaugural and the address.
Reference: 1365

1954
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Making Democracy a Reality, Jefferson, Jackson, and Polk

Publisher: Memphis State College Press
City: Memphis
Date: 1954
Pages: 1-39
Notes: TJ chapter is a sentimental and imprecise paean to him as a defender of democratic freedom.
Reference: 1416

1954
Name: Brown , Margaret Washington
Title: "The Story of the Declaration of Independence Desk and How It Came to the National Museum."

Publication: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1953.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1954
Pages: 455-62
Notes: Provenance of TJ's portable desk and an account of the copies made of it.
Reference: 198

1954
Name: Brown , Stuart Gerry
Title: The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison

Publisher: Syracuse University Press
City: Syracuse
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. vii, 186
Notes: Survey of the commonplaces of republican ideology.
Reference: 2157

1954
Name: Anonymous
Title: The University of Missouri: First State University in the Louisiana Purchase

Publication: The University of Missouri Bulletin
Volume: 54
Date: 1954
Pages: unpag.
Notes: General Series, 1954, no. 29. Information on Jeffersonian relics at the University.
Reference: 1237

1954
Name: Gostkowski , Zygmunt
Title: "T. Paine, T. Jefferson, R. W. Emerson, W. Whitman, Idealogia Wiary w Protego CzJowieka."

Publication: Przeglad Nauk Historycznychi i Spolecznych
Volume: 4
Date: (1954)
Pages: 583-646
Notes: Polish. "T. Paine, T. Jefferson, R. W. Emerson, W. Whitman, Ideology of Faith in the Common Man." Claims Whitman is of the four the real hero of American democracy since, unlike the others, he participated in the life of the masses.
Reference: 2249

1954
Name: Charlick , Carl
Title: "Jefferson's NATO."

Publication: Foreign Service Journal
Volume: 31
Date: 1954
Pages: 18-21, 58
Notes: TJ attempted to organize European nations to engage with the U.S. in concerted action against the Barbary pirates.
Reference: 1486

1954
Name: Farrison , W. Edward
Title: "Origins of Brown's Clotel."

Publication: Phylon
Volume: 15
Date: (1954)
Pages: 347-54
Notes: One source of William Wells Brown's novel was the Callender scandal about Sally Hemings.
Reference: 2785

1954
Name: Dos Passos , John
Title: The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. vi, 442.
Notes: Biography covering TJ's life through his service as Secretary of State.
Reference: 371

1954
Name: Foster , Sir Augustus John
Title: Jeffersonian America: Notes on the United States of America, Collected in the Years 1805-6-7 and 11-12.

Publication: Edited with an Introduction by Richard Beale Davis.
Publisher: Huntington Library
City: San Marino, Cal.
Date: 1954
Pages: pp.xx,356
Notes: British diplomat visits Monticello, pp. 143-61; TJ discussed there and passim. Interesting but predictably biased.
Reference: 456

1954
Name: Clemons , Harry
Title: The University of Virginia Library, 1825-1950: Story of a Jeffersonian Foundation

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Library
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. xix, 229
Notes: History of the Univ. library told in terms of its Jeffersonian origins; early chapters describe TJ's plans, later ones describe a working out of those plans in the ensuing century and a quarter.
Reference: 2695

1954
Name: Comstock , Helen
Title: "Kosciuszko's Portrait of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Connoisseur
Volume: 133
Date: 1954
Pages: 142-43
Notes: Note on an aquatint portrait circa 1798 done by Kosciuszko.
Reference: 2704

1954
Name: Evans , Emory G.
Title: "Indian Policy Under Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 1
Date: (1954)
Pages: 18-37
Notes: Although TJ wanted a benevolent policy toward the Indians, the whites' demands for land frustrated this. He mostly followed the policies set out under Washington and Adams, although the removal program was inaugurated under him.
Reference: 1589

1954
Name: Green , Paul
Title: This Declaration: A Play in One Act

Publisher: Samuel French
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 20
Notes: TJ and the committee to write the Declaration disagree over the importance of property.
Reference: 2836

1954
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Civic Art"

Publication: City Planning at Yale: A Selection of Papers and Projects, ed. Christopher Tunnard and John N. Pearce
Publisher: Graduate Program in City Planning, Department of Architecture, Yale University
City: New Haven
Date: 1954
Pages: 25-32
Reference: 2971

1954
Name: Maclvor , Ivor
Title: "So We Commemorate the Big Cheese."

Publication: Saturday Evening Post
Volume: 226
Date: 1954
Pages: 88
Notes: Note on the mammoth cheese.
Reference: 737

1954
Name: Houlette , William D.
Title: "Books of the Virginia Dynasty."

Publication: The Library Quarterly
Volume: 24
Date: (1954)
Pages: 226-39
Notes: Discursive treatment of the reading and book-collecting habits of the first four presidents from Virginia; TJ discussed on pp. 229-35.
Reference: 2892

1954
Name: Hicks , Clifford B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Lives Here."

Publication: Popular Mechanics Magazine
Volume: 102
Date: 1954
Pages: 97-103, 212-16
Notes: Illustrated article with emphasis on TJ's techniques of construction and on the restoration by the Memorial Foundation.
Reference: 2883

1954
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: The Story of the Declaration of Independence

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 282
Notes: Background account of the drafting, lives of the signers; aimed at a general audience. Illustrated.
Reference: 1811

1954
Name: Hendrickson , Walter B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—Up From Slander."

Publication: Social Education
Volume: 18
Date: (1954)
Pages: 244-48
Notes: Argues that biographers from George Tucker to Dumas Malone and Nathan Schachner have progressively corrected the slanders of the Federalists and the historians they influenced.
Reference: 546

1954
Name: Malone , Dumas, T. V. Smith, and Lyman Bryson
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (as Broadcast October 11, 1953)."

Publication: Invitation to Learning Reader
Volume: 5
Date: (1954)
Pages: 287-92
Notes: Roundtable discussion.
Reference: 778

1954
Name: Malone , Dumas, ed.
Title: The Jeffersonian Legacy

Publisher: Beacon Press
City: Boston
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 165
Notes: Dramatizations for radio performance by Morton Wishengrad, Milton Geiger, Joseph Mindel, and George Probst.
Reference: 3067

1954
Name: Hans , Nicholas
Title: "Franklin, Jefferson, and the English Radicals at the End of the Eighteenth Century."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 98
Date: (1954)
Pages: 406-26
Notes: Describes TJ's relations with religious and political reform societies in England, particularly the Deistic Society (Society of 13) and the Society of Constitutional Whigs.
Reference: 2269

1954
Name: Henderson , Josie Duncan
Title: Thomas Jefferson at Home

Publisher: The author
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Fanciful sketch.
Reference: 545

1954
Name: Hubbell , Jay Broadus
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The South in American Literature
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
City: Durham
Date: 1954
Pages: 122
Notes: Surveys TJ's philosophy, discusses his literary interests, and comments on the literary quality of his writings. Notes of his style, "His comprehensive mind, like that ot Walt Whitman or Henry James, was too frequently unwilling to abandon qualifying phrases and clauses, even in the interest of the conciseness which he admired in Tacitus and Sallust."
Reference: 2901

1954
Name: Haber , Francis
Title: David Baillie Warden. A Bibliographical Sketch of America's Cultural Ambassador in France

Publisher: Institute Francaise de Washington
City: Washington
Date: 1954
Pages: pp.44
Notes: Warden, on diplomatic service in France from 1804 on, corresponded with TJ on scientific matters and sent news on the savants of Paris. Only a little on this, however.
Reference: 510

1954
Name: Long , Edward John
Title: "Living Links with Jefferson."

Publication: American Forests
Volume: 60
Date: 1954
Pages: 20-23, 48-51
Notes: On the grounds at Monticello, including seven trees of his planting.
Reference: 3043

1954
Name: Lindsay , Barbara
Title: "Henry Adams' History: A Study in Limitations."

Publication: Western Humanities Review
Volume: 8
Date: (1954)
Pages: 99-110.
Notes: Argues that Adams turns his history of TJ's and Madison's administrations into "an ironic demonstration of the futility of human aspirations.
Reference: 699

1954
Name: Hardon , John A.
Title: "The Jefferson Bible."

Publication: American Ecclesiastical Review
Volume: 130
Date: (1954)
Pages: 361-75
Notes: Detailed account of The Life and Morals of Jesus; claims TJ's idea of materialism has been frequently misunderstood.
Reference: 2270

1954
Name: Mayer , Frederick
Title: "Jefferson and Freedom."

Publication: Social Education
Volume: 18
Date: 1954
Pages: 107-09
Notes: TJ's educational philosophy, pragmatic, skeptical, ethical, etc.
Reference: 2359

1954
Name: Hans , Nicholas
Title: "Tsar Alexander I and Jefferson: Unpublished Correspondence."

Publication: Slavonic and East European Review
Volume: 32
Date: (1954)
Pages: 215-25
Notes: Letters of 1802-07, both to and from Alexander and about Alexander from other correspondents; introduction and notes.
Reference: 1659

1954
Name: Rozwenc , Edwin Charles
Title: "Henry Adams and the Federalists"

Publication: Teachers of History: Essays in Honor of Laurence Bradford Packard, ed. H. Stuart Hughes
Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press
City: Ithaca
Date: 1954
Pages: 123-45
Notes: Examines Adams' History and rejects the view that he was a crypto-Jeffersonian.
Reference: 1046

1954
Name: Mead , Sidney Earl
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's 'Fair Experiment'—Religious Freedom."

Publication: Religion in Life
Volume: 23
Date: (1954)
Pages: 566-79
Notes: Thoughtful analysis of the religious consequences of TJ's rationalist defense of religious liberty; explains "why it is that the religion of many Americans is democracy."
Reference: 2362

1954
Name: Mead , Robert G., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson y la America Latina."

Publication: La Nueva Democracia
Volume: 34
Date: 1954
Pages: 40-46
Notes: Surveys TJ's views of events in Latin America.
Reference: 816

1954
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Les Visites de Jefferson au Mont-Valerien."

Publication: Societe Historique de Suresnes. Bulletin
Volume: 3
Date: 1954
Pages: 46-49
Notes: TJ visited the monastery at Mount Calvary, another name for Mount Valerien in Suresnes, near Paris.
Reference: 1024

1954
Name: Smith , Robert Harold
Title: "Albert Gallatin and American Fiscal Policy during Jefferson's First Administration."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Syracuse Univ.
City: Syracuse
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 276
Notes: Discusses Gallatin's role in trying to achieve the three main financial goals of TJ's administration, prompt retirement of the federal debt, reduction of taxation, and economy in government. Although TJ and Madison had opposed the First Bank of the United States, under Gallatin's influence the Bank was strengthened and expanded. DAI 14/09, p. 1325.
Reference: 1989

1954
Name: Peden , William
Title: "Introduction" to Notes on the State of Virginia

Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill
Date: 1954
Pages: xi-xxv
Notes: Good brief account of the circumstances of TJ's Notes, both of composition and publication.
Reference: 3171

1954
Name: Mcllwaine , Bill
Title: "Letters Jefferson Didn't Write."

Publication: Saturday Evening Post
Volume: 226
Date: 1954
Pages: 108
Notes: On the facsimile of the Nov. 27, 1803 letter distributed by the Richmond Morris Plan Bank.
Reference: 736

1954
Name: Taylor , Olivia A.
Title: "The Jefferson Family."

Publication: Annual Report of the Monticello Association
Date: 1954
Pages: 15-19
Notes: Genealogy of TJ; in the Reports for 1955-59 the author gives genealogic lists for "The Descendents of Thomas Jefferson."
Reference: 1153

1954
Name: Wallace , Henry A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book."

Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 28
Date: 1954
Pages: 133-38
Notes: Discusses TJ's interest in farming and the difficulties of experimental farming.
Reference: 3386

1954
Name: Wasserman , Felix M.
Title: "Six Unpublished Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Germanic Review
Volume: 29
Date: (1954)
Pages: 191-200
Notes: Describes the letters in the Library of Congress and discusses Humboldt's interest in TJ and the United States.
Reference: 1270

1955
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: High Moment, ed. Wallace Brockway.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
City: New York
Date: 1955
Pages: 129-46
Reference: 154

1955
Name: Bestor , Arthur
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Freedom of Books"

Publication: Three Presidents and Their Books
Publisher: Univ. of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Date: 1955
Pages: 1-44
Notes: Resolves TJ's defence of intellectual liberty and his seemingly contradictory attempts to combat erroneous positions he found in books like Montesquieu's Spirit, Hume's History, and Blackstone's Commentaries. Defends rationale of the Univ. of Virginia Board Visitor's resolution of March 4, 1825.
Reference: 2585

1955
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson and the Bill of Rights."

Publication: Virginia Law Review
Volume: 41
Date: (1955)
Pages: 709-29
Notes: TJ's demand for a bill of rights was justified by the threats to civil liberty periodically generated by demagogues and sensationalists.
Reference: 1413

1955
Name: Bernstein , Samuel
Title: "Jefferson on the French Revolution"

Publication: Essays in Political and Intellectual History
Publisher: Paine-Whitman Publishers
City: New York
Date: 1955
Pages: 57-76
Notes: Surveys TJ's views of French society and character and gives a Marxist analysis of him as a thinker shocked by the "ugly manifestations" of capitalism in order to suggest that he had more in common with Robespierre and the Jacobins than with the Girondins. But since he derived most of his information from anti-Robespierrist sources, he leaned more toward the Girondins during their struggle with the Jacobins.
Reference: 2137

1955
Name: Adams , Mary P.
Title: "Jefferson's Reaction to the Treaty of San Ildefonso."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 21
Date: (1955)
Pages: 173-88
Notes: Contends the files of the War Department from April 1801 through mid 1803 "reveal a clear and positive Louisiana policy," including military preparations on the Mississippi, projection of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Indian and land policy measures.
Reference: 1347

1955
Name: Adair , Douglass
Title: "Trivia III."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 12
Date: 1955
Pages: 332-34
Notes: "Post Office Degrades Jefferson from a 3 cent to a 2 cent Status" in the Eisenhower administration. Only partly tongue in cheek.
Reference: 43

1955
Name: Bridgwater , Dorothy
Title: "A New Letter to Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Yale Univ. Library Gazette
Volume: 30
Date: 1955
Pages: 29-30
Notes: Letter of Harry Innes, November 29, 1781, noted as unlocated in the Papers, 6:159.
Reference: 180

1955
Name: Bennett , Paul L.
Title: "A Virginian and a Man from Massachusetts."

Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1955
Pages: 5
Notes: Brief sketch of TJ and John Adams.
Reference: 118

1955
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson's Portable Writing Desk."

Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 60
Date: 1955
Pages: 18
Notes: Note on replicas of the desk often confused with the original.
Reference: 2932

1955
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson's Adieu."

Publication: Manuscripts
Volume: 7
Date: (1955)
Pages: 213
Notes: Prints what purports to be perhaps TJ's last written words, an eight-line poetic farewell to Martha Jefferson Randolph. Gives provenance of mss. Uncritical.
Reference: 601

1955
Name: Butterfield , L. H
Title: "July 4 in 1826."

Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 6
Date: 1955
Pages: 102-04
Notes: U.S. came of age in the summer of 1826 because deaths of TJ and Adams "awakened in every thoughtful citizen a consciousness of the republican ideals the two patriots had exemplified."
Reference: 222

1955
Name: Allan , Alfred K.
Title: "The Music Lover of Monticello."

Publication: Music Journal
Volume: 13
Date: 1955
Pages: 39, 58
Notes: Romanticized sketch of TJ's musical activities.
Reference: 2527

1955
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Some Animadversions on Being Struck by Lightning"

Publication: Daedalus
Volume: 86
Date: 1955
Pages: 49-56
Notes: On editing the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Reference: 168

1955
Name: Crowley , Francis J., ed.
Title: "Madame de Stael and the United States."

Publication: Modern Philology
Volume: 52
Date: (1955)
Pages: 201-02
Notes: Prints with informative comment a letter from de Stael to TJ, dated February 12, 1817.
Reference: 317

1955
Name: Gaines , William H.
Title: "Under a Jeffersonian Dome."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 5
Date: 1955
Pages: 20-25
Notes: On the Rotunda.
Reference: 2808

1955
Name: Conde , Jose Alvarez
Title: "Monticello: El Hogar de Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Circus Social de Cuba
Volume: 12
Date: 1955
Pages: 62-65
Reference: 295

1955
Name: Dawson , Joseph Martin
Title: "Roger Williams and the Pattern of the American Republic."

Publication: The Quarterly Review: A Survev of Southern Baptist Progress
Volume: 15
Date: 1955
Pages: 9-16
Notes: Argues for a similarity of TJ's views to Williams' and for a Baptist influence on his ideas about religious liberty. Unconvincing. Similar material in the chapter of the same title in Dawson's Baptists and the American Republic. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1956. 15-45.
Reference: 2202

1955
Name: Gaines , William H. Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Favorite Hideaway

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 5
Date: 1955
Pages: 36-39
Notes: On Poplar Forest
Reference: 466

1955
Name: Coon , Horace Campbell
Title: "Intellectuals in the White House: Thomas Jefferson, Archetype of the Egghead in Politics"

Publication: Triumph of the Eggheads
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Date: 1955
Pages: 24-46
Notes: TJ demonstrated the usefulness of intelligence in democratic government, but "the intellectual leader in politics in those days was his own brains trust."
Reference: 1504

1955
Name: Gerbi , Antonello
Title: La Disputa del Nuovo Mondo: Storia di Una Polemica, 1750-1900

Publisher: R. Ricciardi
City: Milano
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. x, 783
Notes: Revised and enlarged edition translated by Jeremy Moyle as The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750-1900. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1973. Discusses on pp.252-68 (1973) the role TJ and his Notes played in the response to Buffon's theory concerning the inferiority of New World life forms. The best account of the whole controversy in its broadest outlines.
Reference: 2819

1955
Name: Fields , Joseph Edward
Title: "Birthplace of the Declaration."

Publication: Manuscripts
Volume: 7
Date: (1955)
Pages: 140-44
Notes: On the house where TJ drafted the Declaration.
Reference: 430

1955
Name: Fabian , Bernhard
Title: "Jefferson's Notes on Virginia: The Genesis of Query xvii, The different religions received into that State?"

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Pages: 124-38
Notes: TJ's plea for religious liberty in this section embodies the substance of the argument of 1776 in support of his Resolutions for Disestablishing the Church of England and for Repealing Laws Interfering with Freedom of Worship.
Reference: 2224

1955
Name: Davis , Thurston N. and R. Freeman Butts
Title: "Footnote on Church-State; 'Say Nothing of My Religion."'

Publication: School and Society
Volume: 81
Date: (1955)
Pages: 180-87
Notes: A debate over TJ's opinions on the proper relationship between religious instruction and public education. Father Davis accuses Butts of incorrectly turning TJ into an "ardent secularist"; Butts points to TJ's insistence that schools of religion be independent of the University of Virginia.
Reference: 2744

1955
Name: Davis , Richard Beale
Title: The Abbe Corea in America, 1812-1820. The Contributions of the Diplomat and Natural Philosopher to the Foundations of Our National Life. Correspondence with Jefferson and Other Members of the American Philosophical Society and with Other Prominent Americans

Publication: Transactions of the APS
Volume: n. s. 45
Date: 1955
Pages: 87-197
Notes: The introduction focuses on Corea, but a sizeable portion of the well-annotated correspondence is to or from TJ.
Reference: 2737

1955
Name: Charles , Joseph
Title: "The Jay Treaty: The Origins of the American Party System."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Pages: 581-630
Notes: The Jay Treaty "altered party alignments and caused each group to close ranks."
Reference: 1483

1955
Name: Detweiler , Philip F.
Title: "The Declaration of Independence in Jefferson's Lifetime."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Tulane Univ.
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. 367
Reference: 1554

1955
Name: DeVoto , Bernard
Title: "An Inference Regarding the Expedition of Lewis and Clark."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 99
Date: (1955)
Pages: 185-94
Notes: Argues suggestively that TJ regarded the expedition, planned before the actual purchase, as a means to hasten the expansion of the U.S. to the Pacific.
Reference: 1555

1955
Name: Dumbauld , Edward
Title: "Introduction"

Publication: The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Representative Selections
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1955
Pages: pp.xlii,204
Reference: 1569

1955
Name: Charles , Joseph
Title: "Adams and Jefferson: The Origins of the American Party System."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd. ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Pages: 410-46
Notes: "Jefferson did not create a party; a widespread popular movement recognized and claimed him as its leader."
Reference: 1482

1955
Name: Douglass , Elisha P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Revolutionary Democracy"

Publication: Rebels and Democrats; The Struggle for Equal Political Rights and Majority Rule During the American Revolution
Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill
Date: 1955
Pages: 287-316
Notes: Claims that "When democracy is construed as political processes establishing political equality and majority rule, Jefferson cannot be considered a democrat to the same extent as the dissident groups in the Revolutionary era." Discusses TJ's draft of a constitution for Virginia and his reform bills during his governorship.
Reference: 1565

1955
Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: "Feast Days at Monticello."

Publication: McCalls
Volume: 83
Date: 1955
Pages: 42-47, 84
Notes: TJ as host at Monticello, illustrated.
Reference: 642

1955
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Lawyer."

Publication: Essential Books
Volume: l
Date: 1955
Pages: 5-8
Notes: Discusses the conditions of being a lawyer in Virginia circa 1770 and TJ's professional activities at that time.
Reference: 1812

1955
Name: Kuper , Theodore Fred
Title: "Collecting Monticello."

Publication: Manuscripts
Volume: 7
Date: (1955)
Pages: 2 16-23.
Notes: Account of the efforts of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to acquire Monticello.
Reference: 671

1955
Name: Kline , Alfred Allen
Title: "The 'American' Stanzas in Shelley's Revolt of Islam: A Source."

Publication: Modern Language Notes
Volume: 70
Date: (1955)
Pages: 101-03
Notes: Finds parallels in ideas between stanzas of Shelley and TJ's first inaugural address, which supposedly the poet read in 1817 when he wrote the Revolt.
Reference: 2994

1955
Name: Haraszti , Zoltan
Title: "Jefferson's Bill of Religious Freedom."

Publication: Boston Public Library Quarterly
Volume: 7
Date: (1955)
Pages: 221-23
Notes: Note describing its enactment; the Boston Library claims to have the only known copy of the earliest printing of the Bill.
Reference: 528

1955
Name: Hannon , Stuart L.
Title: "The Mind of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Foreign Service Journal
Volume: 32
Date: 1955
Pages: 20-21
Reference: 527

1955
Name: Lichtenstein , Stanley
Title: "Caricaturing the Fathers."

Publication: Christian Century
Volume: 72
Date: (1955)
Pages: 999
Notes: Letter to the editor protesting the Indianapolis school system's presentation of TJ as favoring religious instruction in the university and tax support for the education of clergy.
Reference: 2332

1955
Name: Hamilton , J. G. deRoulhac
Title: "The Pacifism of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 31
Date: (1955)
Pages: 607-20
Notes: Argues that TJ was no pacifist in a post-1914 meaning of the term; although he would have preferred to avoid war, he supported it when it was inevitable.
Reference: 1654

1955
Name: Hawgood , John A.
Title: "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: History
Volume: 40
Date: (1955)
Pages: 273-85
Notes: Intelligent review of the contents of the first seven volumes of the Jefferson Papers.
Reference: 537

1955
Name: Lieuallen , Roy Elwayne
Title: "The Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Conceptions in Higher Education."

Publication: Ed.D. dissertation
Publisher: Stanford Univ.
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. 355
Notes: Concludes that "Since Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism in education represent a single conception, that of equalitarianism, the terms are inappropriately used (by some twentieth-century educators) to designate contrasting conceptions." DAI 15/03, p. 355.
Reference: 3032

1955
Name: McDowell , Frederick P. W.
Title: "Psychology and Theme in Brother to Dragons."

Publication: PMLA
Volume: 70
Date: (1955)
Pages: 565-86
Notes: Robert Penn Warren's TJ is unwilling to admit the complexity of moral and psychological values "because of his zeal to preserve the integrity of his vision."
Reference: 3054

1955
Name: Robbins , Roland Wells.
Title: "Report on 1955 Archaeological Exploration at Shadwell, Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson ... April 5-May 27 ... June 15-July 1, 1955."

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. 35, 6
Notes: Mimeographed report on excavations which located the probable site of TJ's birthplace.
Reference: 1029

1955
Name: Shackelford , George Green
Title: "William Short, Jefferson's Adopted Son, 1758-1849."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. 566
Notes: The only full-length biography of Short.
Reference: 1082

1955
Name: Miers , Earl Schenck
Title: The Story of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
City: New York
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. 179
Notes: Juvenile biography.
Reference: 827

1955
Name: Miers , Earl Schenck
Title: "Introduction"

Publication: The Declaration of Independence, as Written by Thomas Jefferson and Changed by the Congress Before Its Unanimous Adoption on July the Fourth 1776
Publisher: Printed for Friends of the Curtis Paper Co.
City: Newark, Del.
Date: 1955
Pages: pp.22
Reference: 2367

1955
Name: Sensabaugh , George F.
Title: "Jefferson's Use of Milton in the Ecclesiastical Controversies of 1776."

Publication: American Literature
Volume: 26
Date: (1955)
Pages: 552-59
Notes: TJ read Milton's Of Reformation in England and The Reason of Church Government Urged whi~he "Resolutions for Disestablishing the Church of England and for Repealing Laws Interfering with Freedom of Worship."
Reference: 1960

1955
Name: Sachs , Jules R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in Paris."

Publication: The American Society Legion of Honor Magazine
Volume: 26
Date: (1955)
Pages: 55-75
Notes: Rambling discussion of TJ in Paris, emphasizing the impact of its cultural life; minor.
Reference: 1057

1955
Name: Paschall , G. Spurgeon
Title: "Jefferson and the Baptists."

Publication: The Quarterly Review: A Survey of Southern Baptist Progress
Volume: 15
Date: 1955
Pages: 54-56
Notes: Suggests TJ attended meetings of the Buck Mountain Baptist Church near Monticello; not carefully researched.
Reference: 2401

1955
Name: Scribner , Robert Leslie
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Rock Bridge."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 4
Date: 1955
Pages: 42-47
Notes: Account of TJ's ownership of the Natural Bridge and its visitors.
Reference: 1070

1955
Name: Palmer , R. R.
Title: "A Neglected Work: Otto Vossler on Jefferson and the Revolutionary Era."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Pages: 462-71
Notes: Abstract of Vossler's Die Amerikanischen Revolutionsideale; see item #2055.
Reference: 2394

1955
Name: Rossiter , Clinton
Title: "Which Jefferson Do You Quote?"

Publication: Reporter
Volume: 13
Date: 1955
Pages: 33-36
Notes: Describes "seven Jeffersons," anti-statist, civil libertarian, etc. The real TJ, he claims, was a progressive, not a limitationist.
Reference: 1042

1955
Name: Thacker , William C.
Title: "The Structural Preservation of Monticello."

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. (11)
Notes: Report done for the Memorial Foundation, discusses work done in 1953 which included the removal of nearly 100 tons of the mud and brick nogging laid in between the floor joists.
Reference: 3321

1956
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Stamps
Volume: 94
Date: 1956
Pages: 446-48
Notes: Account related to the issue of the 20˘ Monticello postage stamp on April 13, 1956.
Reference: 104

1956
Name: Brisbane , Robert H., Jr.
Title: "Interposition: Theory and Practice."

Publication: Phylon
Volume: 17
Date: (1956)
Pages: 12-16
Notes: TJ set forward the doctrine of interposition in its classic form in the Kentucky Resolutions.
Reference: 1436

1956
Name: Berkeley , Francis L.
Title: "Farmer Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Wisdom
Volume: 1
Date: 1956
Pages: 72-75
Notes: Shortened version of an essay which originally appeared in Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, ed. Betts.
Reference: 2581

1956
Name: Cahn , Edmond
Title: "Brief for the Supreme Court."

Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1956
Pages: 9, 64-70
Notes: Claims judicial review is not at odds with TJ's principles; see reply by Arthur Krock, October 28, 1956. p. 6.
Reference: 1463

1956
Name: Bowman , Albert H.
Title: "Jefferson, Hamilton, and American Foreign Policy."

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 71
Date: (1956)
Pages: 18-41
Notes: Argues that TJ and not Hamilton was the realist in foreign policy; TJ understood the national interest, but "Hamilton's foreign policy was based constantly upon what he wanted the United States to become, not upon what it was or was likely to be." The Nootka Sound crisis revealed the distance between their policies; the Jay Treaty "made war inevitable."
Reference: 1420

1956
Name: Anonymous
Title: A Life Portrait of Thomas Jefferson Drawn in 1804 by Fevret de SaintMemin. Restruck From the Original Plate

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1956
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Folded broadside with notes on Saint-Memin's physiognotrace portrait and a portrait laid in.
Reference: 3033

1956
Name: Cochran , Joseph Wilson
Title: The Tide and Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Franklin Press
City: Bradenton, Fla.
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. 11
Notes: Biographical sketch; "tide" as in tide of events. Minor.
Reference: 279

1956
Name: Carmer , Carl, ed
Title: "Apostle of Freedom" and "Scientist, Writer, Inventor" in Cavalcade of America, The Deeds and Achievements of the Men and Women Who Made Our Country Great

Publisher: Crown/Lothrop, Lee and Shepard
City: New York
Date: 1956
Pages: 42-49
Notes: Stories adapted from radio plays broadcast on the "Cavalcade of America" program.
Reference: 239

1956
Name: Davis , Curtis Carroll
Title: "Mr Littlepage Briefs Mr. Jefferson on the European Situation: 1791."

Publication: Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine
Volume: 6
Date: (1956)
Pages: 542-53
Notes: Lewis Littlepage was an adviser to Stanislaus Augustus 11 of Poland and corresponded with TJ. His long letter of December 26, 1791, is a full report on European politics.
Reference: 1540

1956
Name: Dos Passos , Cyril Franklin
Title: "Notes on the 10 cents Jefferson, 1870-1879”

Publication: Original Paper on Philatelic Themes Presented by Invitation: American Philatelic Congress
Volume: 22
Date: 1956
Pages: 47-55
Notes: Philatelic notes on stamps bearing TJ's portrait
Reference: 370

1956
Name: Cohn , David L
Title: The Fabulous Democrats: A History of the Democratic Party in Text and Pictures

Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1956
Pages: pp.192
Notes: TJ discussed on pp. 9-27; popular.
Reference: 1492

1956
Name: Ferris , D. H.
Title: "Jefferson Made to Order."

Publication: Georgia Review
Volume: 10
Date: 1956
Pages: 131-46
Notes: The New Dears "suggestion that Mr. Jefferson was a liberal is, of course, merely an absurd and very juvenile bit of apocrypha."
Reference: 1594

1956
Name: Chase , Gilbert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson y las Bellas Artes."

Publication: Atlantico
Volume: 3
Date: (1956)
Pages: 5-20
Notes: TJ's artistic interests discussed; he is "un clasicista con tendencias romanticas."
Reference: 2673

1956
Name: Cheetham , Henry H.
Title: Was Thomas Jefferson a Unitarian?

Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian Church
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1956
Pages: pp.12
Notes: Yes, it says here.
Reference: 2171

1956
Name: Fitch , Robert E.
Title: "The American President as Philosopher-King."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 135
Date: 1956
Pages: 11-13
Notes: TJ's portrayal of George Washington suggests Eisenhower.
Reference: 1597

1956
Name: Charles , Joseph
Title: The Origins of the American Party System: Three Essays

Publisher: Institute of Early American History and Culture
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. vi, 147
Notes: Essays originally appeared in ~Q, 12(1956), 217-67, and as in the two previous items (pp. 217-67 not relevant to TJ). Standard work.
Reference: 1484

1956
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: "Prophet of the American Way"

Publication: The American Story: The Age of Exploration to the Age of the Atom, ed. Earl Schenk Miers
Publisher: Channel Press
City: Great Neck, N.Y.
Date: 1956
Pages: 83-88
Notes: Biographical sketch.
Reference: 774

1956
Name: Johnson , Luciana
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Beginning of the Republican Party."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of California at Riverside
Date: 1956
Pages: none given
Reference: 1718

1956
Name: Littell , Mary Clark
Title: "Mrs. Thomas Jefferson, Mistress of Monticello."

Publication: Western Humanities Review
Volume: 78
Date: 1956
Pages: 15-16
Notes: Biographical sketch of Martha Wayles Jefferson.
Reference: 702

1956
Name: Infante , Luis C.
Title: "Tomas Jefferson y Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion."

Publication: IPNA (Organo del Instituto Cultural Peruano-Norteamericano)
Volume: 30
Date: (1956)
Pages: 41-45
Notes: Argues that TJ and Sanchez Carrion, as men of the Enlightenment, show significant similarities which help explain the common historical process of the Americas.
Reference: 1702

1956
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: "At Home with Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: New York Times Magazine
Volume: none given
Date: 1956
Pages: 8-9, 18-19
Notes: Description of life at Monticello; reply by L. Loeb, July 22, 1956. p.4.
Reference: 751

1956
Name: Hamlin , Talbot F.
Title: "A Previously Unpublished Perspective of the United States Capitol by B. H. Latrobe."

Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 15
Date: 1956
Pages: 26-27
Notes: A drawing Latrobe sent to TJ after a dispute about the design.
Reference: 2852

1956
Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: Jefferson's Fine Arts Library for the University of Virginia, With Additional Notes on Architectural Volumes Known to Have Been Owned by Jefferson

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Press
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1956
Pages: pp.53
Notes: Includes a desiderata list for the Univ. of Virginia libraries, entries having to do with fine arts from TJ's 1825 Catalogue of the Univ. Library and a list of books now in the Univ. library from TJ's own libraries. Not the same as item #3149.
Reference: 3150

1956
Name: Smith , James Morton
Title: Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties

Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press
City: Ithaca
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. xv, 464
Notes: The definitive book on the subject, focusing particularly on the struggles in the press. TJ mentioned throughout, more as an object of political attention than as an active participant in this phase of the resistance to the Alien and Sedition Laws.
Reference: 1987

1956
Name: Rooney , William E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the New Orleans Marine Hospital."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 22
Date: (1956)
Pages: 167-82
Notes: Describes first years of Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans; TJ's "efforts to provide medical care for seamen in an unhealthy port ... were typical of his humanitarianism."
Reference: 1931

1956
Name: Mearns , David
Title: "Mr. Jefferson to His Namesakes."

Publication: Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Volume: 14
Date: 1956
Pages: 1-5
Notes: Describes three pages of inscription by TJ in a copy of Cicero's De re publica, all addressed to Thomas Jefferson Smith, identity unknown.
Reference: 817

1956
Name: Norton , Paul F
Title: "Jefferson's Plan for Mothballing the Frigates."

Publication: U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Volume: 82
Date: (1956)
Pages: 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: 3134

1956
Name: Russell , Phillips
Title: Jefferson, Champion of the Free Mind

Publisher: Dodd Mead
City: New York
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. viii, 374
Notes: Well-written, popular biography, but derivative.
Reference: 1052

1956
Name: Smith , Russell
Title: Jefferson Program at Charlottesville

Publication: Musical America
Volume: 76
Date: 1956
Pages: 7
Notes: Report on a concert at Monticello of music from TJ's collection.
Reference: 3298

1956
Name: O'Neal , William Bainter and Frederick Doveton Nichols
Title: An Architectural History of the First University Pavilion

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 15
Date: 1956
Pages: 36-43
Notes: Account of the designing and construction of Pavilion VII under TJ's direction.
Reference: 3146

1956
Name: Padover , Saul K.
Title: "Introduction"

Publication: A Jefferson Profile as Revealed in His Letters
Publisher: John Day
City: New York
Date: 1956
Pages: ix-xiv
Notes: "The philosopher of freedom and happiness."
Reference: 896

1956
Name: Shackelford , George Green
Title: "New Letters Between Hugh Blair Grigsby and Henry Stephens Randall, 1858-1861."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 64
Date: (1956)
Pages: 323-57
Notes: Letters discuss Randall's Life of Jefferson; introduction and notes.
Reference: 1081

1956
Name: Padover , Saul K.
Title: Jefferson, A Great American's Life and Ideas

Publisher: Highland Press
City: Hong Kong
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. 290
Notes: Text in Chinese.
Reference: 899

1956
Name: Otis , William Bradley
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Great American Liberals, ed. Gabriel Richard Mason
Publisher: Starr King Press
City: Boston
Date: 1956
Pages: 17-24
Notes: TJ a great leader produced by a great crisis.
Reference: 890

1956
Name: Vance , Joseph C.
Title: Knives, Whips and Randolphs on the Court House Lawn

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 15
Date: 1956
Pages: 28-35
Notes: Best account of Charles L. Bankhead's attack on his brother-in-law, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, in February 1819. Bankhead had mistreated his wife, TJ's granddaughter, and TJ and the family had tried to intervene.
Reference: 1241

1956
Name: White , John W.
Title: "A Letter to Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: New England Social Studies Bulletin
Volume: 14
Date: 1956
Pages: 5-13
Notes: Informs TJ about what has happened to education since his death.
Reference: 3410

1956
Name: Taylor , Olivia A.
Title: "The Monticello Bust of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Annual Report of the Monticello Association
Date: 1956
Pages: 21-27
Notes: Considers whether the "Monticello bust" is a copy of the lost Ceracchi, concludes it is probably a copy of the David d'Angers portrait commissioned by U. P. Levy.
Reference: 3320

1956
Name: Via , Betty Davis
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Letters to Young People

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1956
Pages: broadside
Notes: Brief notes and extracts from TJ's letters.
Reference: 1255

1956
Name: Todd , Terry E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the University of Virginia."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: University of California at Riverside
Date: 1956
Reference: 3349

1956
Name: Sowerby , E. Millicent
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Library."

Publication: Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America
Volume: 50
Date: (1956)
Pages: 213-28
Notes: TJ was a bibliomaniac but not a bibliophile. Discusses the work involved in preparing the monumental Catalogue; anecdotal but suggestive. Translated into Spanish as "La Biblioteca de Thomas Jefferson." Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia. 8(no. 2, 1958), 115-24.
Reference: 3303

1957
Name: Boehm , Dwight and Edward Schwartz
Title: "Jefferson and the Theory of Degeneracy."

Publication: American Quarterly
Volume: 9
Date: (1957)
Pages: 448-53
Notes: TJ performed valuable service in refuting Buffon's theories which were used for political and propaganda purposes.
Reference: 2601

1957
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Smooth Handle"; A Challenge to the Organization Man

Publisher: College of William and Mary
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1957
Pages: pp.10
Notes: Rpt. from Seminar, An Academic Journal. 2(Spring 1957). TJ illustrates the proper behavior of a citizen in a republic, a challenger of conventional beliefs but a respecter of people's right to govern themselves.
Reference: 167

1957
Name: Beach , Curtis
Title: "The Freedom of Religion."

Publication: New Outlook
Volume: 10
Date: 1957
Pages: 19-24
Notes: Fanciful version of TJ's work for religious freedom, complete with imagined dialogue.
Reference: 2127

1957
Name: Anonymous
Title: College of William and Mary. Thomas Jefferson Day Schedule of Events, Sunday, October 6, 1957

Publisher: College of William and Mary
City: Williamsburge
Date: 1957
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Event also sponsored by the Univ. of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
Reference: 284

1957
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: Old Pictures of Monticello

Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1957
Pages: pp. 31
Notes: Includes some of TJ's drawings; shows the changing appearance.
Reference: 2565

1957
Name: Grane , Sylvia E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Philosophe des Lumieres."

Publication: La Revue Liberale
Volume: 19
Date: 1957
Pages: 40-58
Notes: TJ as an Enlightenment thinker, humanist, revolutionary.
Reference: 2256

1957
Name: Garnett , W. E.
Title: "Lets Celebrate Jefferson's Birthday."

Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 50
Date: 1957
Pages: 22-23
Reference: 470

1957
Name: Clemons , Harry, ed.
Title: "Some Jefferson Manuscript Memoranda of Colonial Virginia Records."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 65
Date: (1957)
Pages: 154-68
Notes: Prints with introduction and extensive annotation two fragmentary mss. in TJ's hand containing notes on the minutes of the Virginia Council and General Court of 1625 and 1626 and a memorandum based on the 1652 records of the House of Burgesses.
Reference: 2692

1957
Name: Echeverria , Durand
Title: Mirage in the West: A History of the French Image of American Society to 1815

Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
City: Princeton
Date: 1957
Pages: pp. xvii, 300
Notes: TJ dealt with passim as a preeminent representer of American landscape, society and politics to a French audience.
Reference: 2766

1957
Name: DeConde , Alexander
Title: "Washington's Farewell, the French Alliance, and the Election of 1796."

Publication: MVHR
Volume: 43
Date: (1957)
Pages: 641-58
Notes: Pierre Auguste Adet, the Directory's minister to the United States, attempted to electioneer for TJ in 1796 in hopes of restoring the French alliance and overthrowing the Jay Treaty, but his efforts were counterproductive on the whole.
Reference: 1550

1957
Name: Govan , Thomas P.
Title: "Jefferson and Hamilton: A Christian Evaluation."

Publication: The Christian Scholar
Volume: 40
Date: 1957
Pages: 6-12
Notes: TJ because of his optimistic view of man, was a heretic and idolater, a Gnostic, a Pelagian, and a Manichean, whose dislike of law let men unrestrained by tradition or law prey on their fellow citizens. Comments on this article by E. Harris Harbison, Leonard J. Trinterud, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. on pp. 13-20, rebuttal on pp. 126-27.
Reference: 2252

1957
Name: Cunningham , Noble E., Jr.
Title: The Jeffersonian Republicans: The Formation of Party Organization, 1789-1801

Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill
Date: 1957
Pages: pp. x, 279
Notes: Focuses on the development of the Republican party on a broad front but also contains a good deal specifically on TJ's role. Rejects the idea of TJ as the organizing genius who singlehandedly brought it all together, although his political shrewdness made him an effective party leader after he returned to political life in 1796. The best book on this subject.
Reference: 1523

1957
Name: Dos Passos , John
Title: The Men Who Made the Nation

Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Date: 1957
Pages: pp. 469
Notes: A novelist's history of the years from Yorktown until TJ's first term, played out in terms of the Hamilton-TJ rivalry, and closing with the Burr-Hamilton duel.
Reference: 1563

1957
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: "Les Michaux et leur Precurseurs"

Publication: Les Botanistes Francais en Amerique du Nord avant 1850
Publisher: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
City: Paris
Date: 1957
Pages: 280-83
Notes: These pages are subheaded "Deux Grands Amateurs de Plantes: Chateaubriand et Thomas Jefferson." Brief.
Reference: 2680

1957
Name: Ludlum , David M.
Title: "The Washington and Jefferson Snowstorm."

Publication: Weatherwise
Volume: 10
Date: 1957
Pages: 187-88, 212
Notes: The snowstorm which began on the day TJ returned to Monticello with Martha Wayles Jefferson was the worst in 150 years.
Reference: 722

1957
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: "Jefferson Goes to School at Williamsburg."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 33
Date: (1957)
Pages: 481-96
Notes: Discussion of TJ's education at William and Mary College and subsequent years in Williamsburg.
Reference: 765

1957
Name: Kusielewicz , Eugene F
Title: "The Jefferson-Niemcewicz Correspondence."

Publication: Polish Review
Volume: 2
Date: 1957
Pages: 7-21
Notes: Prints the letters with notes, including 3 letters recently discovered.
Reference: 677

1957
Name: Kaplan , Lawrence. S.
Title: "Jefferson, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Balance of Power."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 14
Date: (1957)
Pages: 196-217
Notes: Argues that TJ was most successful as a statesman when he showed an appreciation for the importance of a balance of power in Europe for America's fortunes, when he saw the need for freedom from foreign entanglement, and when he valued a cautious diplomacy in advancing westward expansion. His rationalizations of the Embargo and for involvement in the Napoleonic Wars departed from this policy.