"Writings" by Thomas Jefferson, published by Library of America 1984, First Edition, stated 20th Printing (2011).

Hard boards, full cloth cover, gold lettering on spine, 5" x 8.1/4"; decorated endpapers; 1600 pages including Index; printed on acid-free paper; Smyth-sewn binding, a ribbon marker; very good/ fine condition.

Contents:

Autobiography
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Notes on the State of Virginia
Public Papers
Addresses, Messages, and Replies
Miscellany
Letters

"Now fully represented in this Library of America volume is the most comprehensive testimony of the writings of our third president and foremost spokesperson for democracy. Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant political thinker, is perhaps best known for the Declaration of Independence, but he was a man of extraordinarily wide interests."

He was exceptionally controversial in his own time, and many of his ideas remain the subject of national debate. In his arguments for a system of general education, for local rather than central authority, for caution in international affairs, for religious and intellectual freedom, and for economic and social justice, Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our national political life centuries after the nation’s formation. This volume will give readers the opportunity to reassess one of our most influential presidents.

"[T]he lucid and elegantly phrased prose in these pages is the reflection of a sophisticated and well-read man. The energy of his convictions enlivens for contemporary readers many of the debates central to the founding of the United States... Dipping into this collection of public and private writings, the reader derives an extraordinary intimacy with Jefferson. You cannot fail to admire him." [Los Angeles Herald Examiner]

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