Notes: Explains the "paradox of the significance of Jefferson as a major folk hero in the middle of the twentieth century" by arguing that TJ's belief in universal moral values underlying society speaks to the crisis of the post-World War II age.

Reference: 2242

Notes: On the Rotunda.

Reference: 2808

Notes: TJ takes part in the creation of Fluvanna County.

Reference: 1625

Reference: 465

Notes: On Poplar Forest

Reference: 466

Notes: On Thomas Mann Randolph's services in Congress in support of TJ's policies.

Reference: 1624

Notes: Biography of Martha Jefferson's husband contains much on life in TJ's farnily.

Reference: 467

Notes: Pageant in which TJ and the shade of Socrates rub elbows.

Reference: 2809

Notes: Argues that TJ opposed the extension of slavery and that there is no evidence for the claim that he favored Ohio's entry into the Union as a slave state.

Reference: 1626

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

Notes: Small was professor of natural philosophy at William and Mary; this is the best separate piece on him.

Reference: 468

Notes: Explores the background of TJ's famous phrase; useful.

Reference: 2243

Notes: Chatty sketch.

Reference: 2811

Notes: A scissors and paste job with excellent illustrations.

Reference: 469

Notes: TJ as a profound influence upon the young Randolph, but later replaced in his esteem by Edmund Burke. TJ also treated passim.

Reference: 1627

Notes: He would want education for democracy and equality.

Reference: 2813

Reference: 470

Notes: Explains how TJ's attempt to counter John Adams' midnight judges was met by John Marshall and the case of Marbury vs. Madison. Also published in essentially the same form in American Herita~e. 14(June 1963), 6-9, 84-89.

Reference: 1628

Notes: Campbell, founder of the Disciples of Christ, admired TJ with reservations about his "infidelity," and made three visits to Monticello and TJ's grave. He frequently referred to TJ in his magazine The Millennial Harbinger. TJ would have approved of his anti-Calvinism.

Reference: 2244

Notes: Note.

Reference: 2814

Notes: Photographs by Joseph Farber, quotations by TJ, connecting text by Garrett. Handsome illustrations.

Reference: 472

Notes: Conventional account.

Reference: 471

Notes: Contends TJ derived a number of political ideas, particularly those relating to limitation of power, from Dupont de Nemours and Turgot. A generally rejected view.

Reference: 2245

Notes: Pamphlet explaining the American way.

Reference: 473

Notes: Discusses Sidney Kingsley's The Patriots as drama and history; TJ may not be treated with absolute historical accuracy, but the play is still "another peak in the American theater."

Reference: 2815

Notes: Covers TJ's musicianship and interest in technological improvements, e.g. the metronome, Hopkinson's harpsichord improvements, etc.

Reference: 2816

Notes: Reprints with minimal comment TJ's account of excavating an Indian mound .

Reference: 2817

Notes: Focus on TJ; survey.

Reference: 2818

Notes: Focus on Genet, by a descendent who defends his behavior, and criticizes TJ.

Reference: 474

Notes: Claims TJ's political "axiom" has as a prerequisite a social or economic axiom, man's equal right to land.

Reference: 1629

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 475

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

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 1630

Notes: On the great clock at Monticello.

Reference: 2820

Notes: Letters and papers illuminating the contretemps between Giles and T. J. Randolph over the publication of TJ's letter to Giles dated December 25, 1825, in which it was purported TJ approved of John Adams' politics.

Reference: 1631

Notes: Description

Reference: 2821

Notes: Section on TJ lists 39 items.

Reference: 12

Notes: A history of the Democratic Party; indicated pages cover election of 1800 through the Embargo, including a sketch of TJ's life and a section on his political principles.

Reference: 1632

Notes: TJ as skeptic contradicts the TJ who wrote "All men are endowed by their Creator ...."

Reference: 2246

Notes: From the Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, but pagination different from below. Positive view of TJ, but aware that he is still a figure who can arouse party differences.

Reference: 476

Reference: 477

Notes: Presents TJ as the republican hero of simple habits, liberal temper, devoted to democratic principles.

Reference: 478

Notes: A useful collection of pieces on the Declaration; includes the editor's own "The Declaration as Rhetoric," 219-44, an original essay which considers the Declaration in terms of audience, speaker, argument, style, etc.

Reference: 1633

Notes: Intelligent account focusing on TJ's innovations and contrivances, some successful, some not.

Reference: 479

Notes: A close rhetorical analysis of the Declaration. Contends that it is unified by an underlying theme of slavery under tyranny, and that TJ's rejected slavery grievance was an essential element of the text's rhetorical progression and of its logic.

Reference: 2822

Reference: 480

Notes: Surveys TJ's interest in naturalizing plants such as upland rice, the olive, and the cork oak.

Reference: 2823

Notes: On a miniature of the Monticello dining and tea room by Mrs. James W. Thorne.

Reference: 2824

Notes: Account of the memorial ceremonies to TJ and Adams after their deaths.

Reference: 481

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

Notes: Architectural and historical bits for potential tourists.

Reference: 2826

Notes: Illustrated with circa 1895 photographs; sketch of TJ's life at Monticello.

Reference: 482

Notes: Generalities on TJ and the Declaration.

Reference: 483

Notes: "He conquered, as Emerson says in speaking of the force of character over and above mere force of some special faculty, because his arrival anywhere altered the face of affairs."

Reference: 484

Notes: Claims Christian Wolff influenced TJ's thinking about the law of nature as referred to in the Declaration. Original version in German in Jahrbuch der deutschamerikanischen Gesellschaft von Illinois. 1918. 18-19, 80-83.

Reference: 2247

Notes: Surveys the variety of TJ's interest in the American West.

Reference: 485

Notes: Deals with TJ and John Quincy Adams as the two men who laid "the foundations of American expansionism." Claims that news of Western explorations received in the 1780's and 1790's plus English expansionist activities enlarged TJ's views about Western expansion.

Reference: 1634

Notes: Principally describes the library sold to the nation in 1815; also comments on other L. C. acquisitions of books once in TJ's holdings.

Reference: 2828

Notes: TJ's library as core and spiritual model of the Library of Congress.

Reference: 2827

Notes: Describes TJ's activities as book collector; "T.I." refers to his well-known method of marking his books.

Reference: 2829

Notes: Note on food, recipes.

Reference: 2830

Reference: 1635

Notes: The chapters entitled "Presidential Leadership," "Jefferson's Early Initiative," "Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase," and "Thomas Jefferson and the Embargo" cover, respectively, leadership of Congress, defense and the Barbary War, Constitutional issues raised by the Purchase, and the limits of presidential power.

Reference: 1636

Notes: John Nicholas, Jr. told Washington that TJ was the author of the Langhorne letter of 1797, and he may have been James Callender's chief informant.

Reference: 486

Notes: Triumph of style over content; only touches on TJ.

Reference: 487

Notes: Thoughtful discussion, claiming TJ's democratic individualism can be preserved and strengthened by more emphasis on governmental authority; a New Deal defense.

Reference: 1638

Notes: Those writers in 1940 quoting TJ on opposition to a presidential third term have little else in common with him.

Reference: 1637

Notes: Myths and platitudes for social science teachers.

Reference: 488

Reference: 489

Notes: Anecdotes illustrating New England's reaction to TJ's election in 1800. Federalist nostalgia from Peter Parley

Reference: 490

Notes: Identifies the editions of the Bible used by TJ for the Greek, Latin and French extracts in his Morals of Jesus.

Reference: 2248

Reference: 491

Reference: 1639

Notes: TJ treated as the "precise opposite" of Hamilton and the distance between the parties emphasized.

Reference: 1640

Reference: 1641

Notes: Describes Poplar Forest as TJ built it and as it is now.

Reference: 492

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

Notes: Argues that TJ was not a deist or atheist despite attacks on him; he believed in the "over ruling providence of God" and in religious freedom.

Reference: 2251

Reference: 2250

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

Notes: Despite TJ's letter to Benjamin Rush of Jan. 16, 1811, considerable evidence exists that Hamilton did not admire Caesar and would have been unlikely to have praised him over TJ's trinity of Bacon, Newton and Locke.

Reference: 493

Notes: Focuses on TJ's belief in general moral instinct as basis for faith in men's ability to govern themselves.

Reference: 2253

Notes: Includes a 32 page "Picture Portfolio."

Reference: 494

Notes: Contends that "He preached against miscegenation ... but practiced it." Evidence adduced is not entirely convincing.

Reference: 495

Notes: Varying interpretations of TJ are possible because of "the plural character of his thought," and "Because his system is infinitely mutable," he is the founding father most often turned to whenever the "present stands in need of a great democrat.

Reference: 496

Notes: Finds a threefold development in TJ's economic thought: a first period dominated by agrarianism, the second by a belief in laissez faire, and after 1805 he "proposed measures that were consistent with the objectives established by Hamilton, though his methods differed from those of Hamilton in revealing a greater concern with constitutional legitimacy."

Reference: 2255

Notes: Argues that utilitarianism is "the guide to Jefferson's ideas. He believed the purpose of government was to improve the character of the governed.... (not) to maintain order so that there could be the widest possible expression of private interests."

Reference: 2254

Notes: Argues for Freneau's editorial independence on the National Gazette since he supported Genet after TJ realized the political danger of a pro-Genet stand.

Reference: 1642

Notes: TJ as an Enlightenment thinker, humanist, revolutionary.

Reference: 2256

Notes: Despite the title, little on TJ, who as author of the Kentucky Resolution "heresy" is made responsible for the Secession.

Reference: 1643

Notes: Informative account of TJ's two revolving chairs and related furniture.

Reference: 2831

Notes: Gray visited Monticello in company with George Ticknor; comments particulary on the furnishings of Monticello and the library.

Reference: 498

Notes: Discusses TJ's reading in and knowledge of parliamentary procedure before his assuming the presidency of the U.S. Senate in 1797, when he began to draw up his Manual of Parliamentary Practice, first published in 1801. He appealed to George Wythe for help and relied in the meantime on his commonplace pocketbook. Well-informed.

Reference: 1644

Notes: Doctrines of TJ and Christianity lead "by plain steps of logic, to agrarianism." All men were created equal, but since the creation, circumstances have changed and slavery is legitimate.

Reference: 1645

Notes: General discussion of TJ's geographical interests.

Reference: 2832

Notes: Revision of previous item.

Reference: 2833

Reference: 1646

Notes: Interesting attempt to use TJ's ideas about broad land ownership as a basic element of a democratic society to criticize present day British land policy. Sees TJ as the major influence on the Northwest Ordinance, by way of the Ordinance of 1784, and thus a definitive voice in shaping the economic and political structure of the new nation.

Reference: 1647

Notes: Interesting account of the cooling strategies TJ used at Monticello: thick masonry walls, maximized ventilation, bringing shaded air into the house, etc.

Reference: 2834

Notes: Pageant drama concerning the American Revolution in which TJ is a central character; the play closes with him on the bluffs of Richmond, musing about the new nation. Bicentennial edition, revised and rewritten, published in New York: Samuel ~rench, 1976.

Reference: 2835

Notes: TJ and the committee to write the Declaration disagree over the importance of property.

Reference: 2836

Notes: Background study, concluding that "scientists of Jefferson's day found their countrymen all too little interested in science" and they appealed to their patriotism, civic pride, utilitarian spirit, and to natural theology in order to cultivate an interest.

Reference: 2837

Notes: Discusses Irving's satire of the Jeffersonians in the Knickerbocker History and identifies William the Testy as a "philosophic governor ... often suggestive of the Federalist opinion of Jefferson."

Reference: 2838

Notes: Contends H. L. Mencken, Vachel Lindsay, E. L. Masters, et. al. are passe because their version of the "heritage of the sage of Monticello" is "spiritually bankrupt."

Reference: 2839

Notes: Criticizes the hypocrisy of the Founders who continued slavery; discusses the correspondence of TJ and Benjamin Banneker.

Reference: 499

Notes: Biographical sketch; praises TJ for being above the "greed" which now threatens society.

Reference: 500

Notes: What a McCarthy-era loyalty board would do to TJ

Reference: 501

Notes: Prints without comment an undated letter to Charles W. Peale.

Reference: 2840

Notes: TJ's ideas about gardens and attempts to realize them at Monticello.

Reference: 2841

Notes: Surveys TJ's role in planning and design of Washington, D.C. in support of the contention that the form and architecture of the city today is his lengthened shadow.

Reference: 2842

Notes: Biographical sketch; "... Jefferson stands for just that range of ideas that most need re-emphasis at the present hour ... if we are to keep the soul of democracy in our great, ever more powerful, more highly organized, centralized and authoritative Republic."

Reference: 503

Notes: Laudatory, apologetic sketch on pp. 168-87; also see pp. 20-33 on the Mecklenburg Declaration.

Reference: 1648

Notes: Argues that the self-evident truths of the Declaration supply an egalitarian ideology of political legitimacy which has had a continuing appeal because of the middle class orientation of the United States.

Reference: 2257

Notes: TJ cannot be understood apart from the agrarian tradition which he, above all the other founding fathers, bequeathed the nation. His ideas come not from the physiocrats but from Locke's Second Treatise and from Adam Smith.

Reference: 2258

Notes: The first chapter, "The Jeffersonian Ideal," explores TJ's combination of agrarianism and democracy which forms the basis of American democratic society.

Reference: 2259

Notes: Presents TJ as a democratic thinker who speaks to the needs of the present—anti-totalitarian, egalitarian, moral, anti-centralist. See the editors' comments on p. 79, "Griswold's Jefferson," qualifying TJ for the Fortune reader.

Reference: 2260

Notes: Claims that TJ's scheme to rake the best geniuses from the soil is a democratic means of discovering and capitalizing for society the powers of worth and talent.

Reference: 2843

Notes: Abstract of Ph.D. dissertation; contends the tradition of political liberty enshrined in the Declaration is objectively Catholic in origin and substance, although TJ and other founders were subjectively convinced they were enunciating Lockean, "protestant" principles.

Reference: 2261

Reference: 502

Notes: Concentrates on TJ as the "great apostle of civil liberty."

Reference: 504

Notes: Informative introduction covers Kosciuszko's life and his friendship with TJ. Full annotation. Letters of Kusciuszko which were originally written in French are printed in both original and in English translation.

Reference: 505

Notes: Review essay occasioned by Sarah Randolph's Domestic Life.

Reference: 506

Notes: Comments on architecture for the University, with emphasis on the Rotunda.

Reference: 2847

Notes: A general survey, but generously illustrated.

Reference: 2845

Notes: Emphasizes architecture at Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 2846

Notes: Contends that the expedition was not intended with an eye to eventual acquisition of further territory.

Reference: 1649

Notes: TJ's use of classical learning as evidenced in his correspondence with Adams.

Reference: 2848

Notes: Little Blue Book no. 769.

Reference: 507

Notes: TJ's "uncritical eclecticism" combined elements of Stoicism, Epicureanism, Deism, and Unitarianism. DAI 36/03A, p. 1721.

Reference: 2262

Notes: TJ and his house, for tourists.

Reference: 508

Notes: Sketch of TJ's scientific and technological interests.

Reference: 2849

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