Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States, left a vast literary legacy in the form of journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. Jefferson remains one of the country's most extraordinary figures; as well as president he was a brilliant statesman, architect, scientist, naturalist, educator, and public servant. At a dinner for Nobel Prize recipients, John F. Kennedy said that his guests were "the most...

A facsimile of "The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English": p. 149-321.

"Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government's responsibilities to its people and also the people's responsibility to the republic. In this illuminating collection, a project of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham has gathered Jefferson's most powerful and provocative reflections on the subject, drawn from public speeches and documents as well...

Presents a broad view of Jefferson in the fullness of his thought and imagination. Includes a sampling of his most important writings as well as letters to George Washington, James Madison, John Adams,

A collection of letters written by Jefferson to friends and family during his five years as ambassador in Paris.