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

Reference: 2379

Reference: 2380

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

Reference: 3119

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

Reference: 872

Reference: 3120

Reference: 3121

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

Reference: 874

Notes: Survey of TJ's democratic principles.

Reference: 875

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

Reference: 1856

Reference: 876

Notes: Survey.

Reference: 3122

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

Reference: 2381

Reference: 879

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

Reference: 3123

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

Reference: 3125

Reference: 3124

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

Reference: 3128

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

Reference: 3129

Notes: The East Lawn gardens at the University.

Reference: 3127

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

Reference: 880

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

Reference: 3126

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

Reference: 3130

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

Reference: 1857

Notes: TJ in Washington, D.C.

Reference: 882

Reference: 881

Notes: The building of Monticello.

Reference: 883

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

Reference: 884

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

Reference: 885

Reference: 3131

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

Reference: 3132

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

Reference: 3133

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

Reference: 2382

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

Reference: 1858

Notes: Conventional generalities.

Reference: 2383

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

Reference: 2384

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

Reference: 2385

Notes: TJ and Latrobe differ over plans.

Reference: 3136

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

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

Reference: 3137

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

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

Reference: 3138

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

Reference: 1859

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

Reference: 1860

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

Reference: 2386

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