Books of Interest
Martha Jefferson: An Intimate Life with Thomas Jefferson
Martha Jefferson is the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson's greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young age of 33 in 1782...Read more
by William G. Hyland Jr., Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
See the advance reviews for Martha Jefferson, An Intimate Life with Thomas Jefferson.
Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson
Few biographers can boast of spending nearly all of their professional lives writing a comprehensive biography of one of America's most complex subjects...Read more
by William G Hyland Jr., Potomac Books Inc., 2013
William Hyland has provided an interesting and provocative look into the Jefferson family. His other contributions can be found on his website https://www.williamghyland.com/
Dutiful Correspondent: Philosophical Essays on Thomas Jefferson
"This book began, harmlessly enough, as a series of philosophical essays on Thomas Jefferson that were intended to be independently published in selected scholarly journals. I had no intention of binding them together in a book. Yet as I proceeded with the first essay, I began another and then another, without finishing the first. Before long, I had a collection of some five or six incomplete essays on distinct philosophical topics. In each distinct paper, I kept putting forth similar points, because I was making significant discoveries about Jefferson the philosopher-viz., I was finding unexpectedly considerable philosophical content in his numerous writings." (From the Preface of Dutiful Correspondent)
by M. Andrew Holowchak, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
If you are unfamiliar with the basic details of the life of Thomas Jefferson, this should not be your first book. It is better that you read a biography first, such as Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation.. Read more
by Kevin J. Hayes, Oxford University Press, 2008
Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks
This is a book you keep on your night stand or on the corner of your desk so that you can pick it up from time to time. Read more...
by Jonathan Gross, Steelforth Press, 2006
Liberty, State, & Union: The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson
It has become a conventional exercise in recent years to see Thomas Jefferson through the prism of slavery, as though that were the cornerstone on which his political and social philosophy should be examined. It has become almost mandatory for historians to pronounce Jefferson as ambivalent...Read more
by Luigi Marco Bassani, Mercer University Press, 2010
Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
After the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson returned to Monticello and remained there for the greater part of the Revolutionary War. Read more...
by Michael Kranish, Oxford University Press (2010)
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
It is clear the author is troubled by the legal insufficiency of the evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father to any of Sally Hemings children.
by Annette Gordon-Reed, University Press of Virginia (1997)
Understanding Thomas Jefferson
Despite the puff reviews on the jacket, this is not the book to read to "get to know" Thomas Jefferson. Read more...
by E. M. Halliday, HarperCollins (2001)
Negro President
The 3/5ths clause was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in the Articles of Confederation as means of counting the slaves for two purposes...Read more...
by Garry Wills, Houghton Mifflin company (2003)
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson's long and accomplished life resists compression into a one volume treatment. Professor R. B Bernstein almost meets the challenge but not without some lapses. Read more...
by R. B. Bernstein, Oxford University Press (2003)
Siting Jefferson: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson's Legacy
This book preserves a site-specific exhibition sponsored by the University of Virginia Art Museum in 2000 called "Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium." Read more...
by Jill Hartz, University Press of Virginia (2003)
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture
I had requested to be present at a panel discussion of this book and was invited by Professor Peter Onuf, one of the authors. Upon arrival, I was denied a seat on the panel...Read more...
Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, University Press of Virginia (1999)
Jeffersonian Legacies
Edited by Peter S. Onuf, University Press of Virginia (1993)
Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy
Francis D. Cogliano suggests his Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy can be a successor to The Jefferson Image in the American Mind by Merrill D. Peterson. That's quite a stretch, but Reputation and Legacy is well worth the reader's time.
by Francis D. Cogliano, University of Virginia Press (2006)
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Once James Madison was inaugurated as president, it was time for Thomas Jefferson to return to Monticello. Read more...
by Alan Pell, Crawford Random House (2008)
“Those Who Labor for My Happiness”: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
The title is in quotation marks, as if Jefferson actually wrote such a thing, but in fact he did not. The title completely changes the meaning of what Jefferson actually wrote to the very opposite of what Jefferson meant. Read more…
by Lucia Stanton, University of Virginia Press (2012)
Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment: Paris 1785
Why Jefferson left Monticello in 1784 and went to Paris is somewhat of an unanswered mystery. Read more...
by James Thompson, Commonwealth Book Publishers of Virginia (2013)