A careful study of the third president's moral and religious life suggests he was not the secularist hero he is sometimes made out to be. Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Flesh and Spirit, by Thomas S ...

"This book is based on volumes 1-19 of The papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd and others, published by Princeton University Press." ...

Andrew Burstein recently retired as a professor of history at LSU, where he earned distinction as an author of numerous works about early America. Among his credits are a well-received biography of ...

In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen. Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a biography ...

He then pauses, and asks to start over, recalling how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt evoked Jefferson as an “apostle of ...

Jefferson found a function requiring much the same talents with that of the pamphleteer, but possessing some advantages over it. The only means which the Continental Congress and the colonial ...