Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Thomas Jefferson books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2013)
- Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (2017)
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1998)
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History (2017)
- Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 (2010)
- Speech of Mr. T. J. Rusk, of Texas, on the Mexican War: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 17, 1848 (Classic Reprint) by Thomas Jefferson Rusk (2015-09-27) ()
- Thomas Jefferson (2005)
- Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (2018)
- The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Portable Library) (1977)
- The Real Thomas Jefferson (American Classic Series) (1983)
- The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson (2016)
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2013)
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver.
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (2017)
A proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights motivating American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation, he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level. He was a land owner and farmer. Jefferson was primarily of English ancestry, born and educated in colonial Virginia. He graduated from the College of William & Mary and briefly practiced law, at times defending slaves seeking their freedom.
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1998)
National Bestseller For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight–and not only during his active political career.
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History (2017)
When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 (2010)
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Speech of Mr. T. J. Rusk, of Texas, on the Mexican War: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 17, 1848 (Classic Reprint) by Thomas Jefferson Rusk (2015-09-27) ()
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Thomas Jefferson (2005)
Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as “Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.” It is in this simple epitaph that R.B.
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (2018)
From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America’s most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course.Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament.
The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Portable Library) (1977)
Includes and complete; seventy-nine letters; “Response to the Citizens of Albemarle,” 1790; “Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank,” 1791; and many other writings.
The Real Thomas Jefferson (American Classic Series) (1983)
Jefferson is the central figure in American history, andhe may yet prove to be the central figure in modern history. So stated noted historian Henry Steele Commager. And as the English novelist Samuel Butler once wrote, Though God cannot alter the past–historians can.
The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson (2016)
The American public was nearly deprived of the opportunity to read this book.In 2012 popular historian David Barton set out to correct what he saw as the distorted image of a once-beloved Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, in what became a New York Times best-selling book, The Jefferson Lies.Despite the wildly popular success of the original hardcover edition, or perhaps because of it, a campaign to discredit Barton’s scholarship was launched by bloggers and a handful of non-historian academics.…
Best Thomas Jefferson Books Worth Your Attention
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Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations
Author(s): Tom Chaffin
ID: 2442151, Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, Year: 26 Nov 2019, Size: 16 Mb, Format: epub
Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
Author(s): Thomas S. Kidd
ID: 3307730, Publisher: Yale University Press, Year: 2022, Size: 10 Mb, Format: epub
Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
Author(s): Melvin Laracey
ID: 3159670, Publisher: University of Michigan Press, Year: 2021, Size: 1 Mb, Format: pdf
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