Thomas Jefferson: third president of the United States, and author of the Declaration of Independence.
(At left, the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.)
From the Thomas Jefferson page on goodreads.com:
“More than a mere renaissance man, Jefferson may actually have been a new kind of man. He was fluent in five languages and able to read two others. He wrote, over the course of his life, over sixteen thousand letters. He was acquainted with nearly every influential person in America, and a great many in Europe as well. He was a lawyer, agronomist, musician, scientist, philosopher, author, architect, inventor, and statesman. Though he never set foot outside of the American continent before adulthood, he acquired an education that rivaled the finest to be attained in Europe. He was clearly the foremost American son of the Enlightenment.
Jefferson was born at Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia on April 13, 1743…”
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A selection of HPL biographies and American history books (Dewey 973) about Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson: architect of American liberty. Boles, John B. (B Jef)
Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary: a radical’s struggle to remake America. Gutzman, Kevin Raeder. (B Jef)
Thomas Jefferson: the art of power. Meacham, Jon. (B Jef)
Friends divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Wood, Gordon S. (973.3092 Woo)
Madison and Jefferson. Burstein, Andrew. (973.4 Bur)
Twilight at Monticello: the final years of Thomas Jefferson. Crawford, Alan Pell. (973.4 Cra)
Framing a legend: exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Holowchak, Mark. (973.4 Hol)
American emperor: Aaron Burr’s challenge to Jefferson’s America. Stewart, David O. (973.4 Ste)
Jefferson’s America: the President, the purchase, and the explorers who transformed a nation. Fenster, Julie M. (973.46 Fen)
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli pirates: the forgotten war that changed American history. Kilmeade, Brian. (973.47 Kil)
The pirate coast : Thomas Jefferson, the first marines, and the secret mission of 1805. Zacks, Richard. (973.47 Zac)
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Goodreads has many pages for special areas and topics, including materials about Thomas Jefferson and his time. A few are listed below:
Thomas Jefferson:
www.goodreads.com/author/show/1673.Thomas_Jefferson
Goodreads History Book Club, for a study of “American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson”:
www.goodreads.com/topic/show/276785-american-sphinx—toc-and-syllabus
Founding Fathers page on goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1048676.Founding_Fathers
