Jefferson: A Monticello Sampler. Jefferson: A Monticello Sampler by Rick Britton is a captivating collection of essays on Thomas Jefferson's multi-faceted life. An award-winning historical journalist, Britton has been writing about Jefferson and Monticello for well over a deca... - Jefferson: A Monticello Sampler.
Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson?'s life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinkeras well as Jefferson the architect, ... - Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty.
Martha Jefferson Randolph. These pages chronicle the account of a tearful child emerging from the grief of a young mother's death to seed a relationship that became the emotional sustenance of her father's republican aspirations, and who grew to be an indispensable helpm... - Martha Jefferson Randolph.
Monticello: The Official Guide to Thomas Jefferson's World. Beautifully illustrated with more than 300 photographs, paintings, drawings, and maps, Monticello: The Official Guide to Thomas Jefferson's World invites readers into the realm of the man who penned the Declaration of Independ... - Monticello: The Official Guide to Thomas Jefferson's World.
My Monticello. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, "My Monticello... - My Monticello.
Our Declaration. Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with... - Our Declaration.
Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's... - Paradise Lost.
The Adams - Jefferson Letters. The correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraces government, philosophy, religion, quotidian, and family griefs and joys. It begins in 1777, ceases in 1801 after Jefferson's ... - The Adams - Jefferson Letters.
The Billionaire's Vinegar (Paperback). The Billionaire?'s Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux?-supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson?-that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a ... - The Billionaire's Vinegar (Paperback).
The Brother Gardeners. In 1733, a garden revolution began when farmer John Bartram sent American plants and seeds to London merchant Peter Collinson. Over the next 40 years, a small group of naturalists made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of ho... - The Brother Gardeners.
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution. On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries-Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph-for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into h... - The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution.
The Declaration of Independence. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence summarizes America's founding political philosophy. At once a cherished symbol of liberty and an expression of Jefferson's monumental talents a... - The Declaration of Independence.
The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University. Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "The University" throughout the South for most of the nineteenth century, and today it stands as one of the premier universities in the world. This volume pr... - The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University.
The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello. Anyone who has toured Monticello during the spring and summer months has seen the extensive fruit gardens that are as much a part of Thomas Jefferson's legacy as his seven-day clock and dumbwaiter. Cultivating over 170 varieties of temperate fruits&c... - The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello.
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family. Sarah and Angelina Grimke-the Grimke sisters-are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, a... - The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.
The Jefferson Bible. In 1819 Thomas Jefferson began isolating the passages from the Bible which he believed to be the authentic words and teachings of Jesus. "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth," extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin&com... - The Jefferson Bible.
The Jefferson Bible - Smithsonian Edition. The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was Thomas Jefferson's effort to extract what he considered the pertinent doctrine of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing su... - The Jefferson Bible - Smithsonian Edition.
The Life of Thomas Jefferson In Pursuit of Reason. In Pursuit of Reason fills a longstanding need of interested readers, students, and scholars for an authoritative single-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson. Although there have been important works on Jefferson before, their very... - The Life of Thomas Jefferson In Pursuit of Reason.
The Men Who Lost America - British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire. Winner of the George Washington Book Prize AwardThe loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to b... - The Men Who Lost America - British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire.
The Nature of Things. The Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things, Lucretius celebrates with wit and sharp perception the extraordinary brea... - The Nature of Things.