Selected Bibliography
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From among the thousands of Jefferson-related titles in the
Library of Congress collections, the bibliography below highlights
the most significant editions of works by Jefferson and a
limited selection of biographies and other works particularly
useful to general and younger readers.
Adams, Dickinson W., and Ruth W. Lester, eds. Jefferson’s
Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus"
and "The Life and Morals of Jesus." With
an introduction by Eugene R. Sheridan. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1983.
LC Call Number: BS2549.J5 J43 1983 [Catalog
Record]
Betts, Edwin Morris, ed. Thomas Jefferson's
Farm Book, with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other
Writings. 1953; rpt. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation, 1999.
LC Call Number: S451.V8 J4 1999 [Catalog
Record]
-----, and James Adam Bear Jr., eds. The
Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. 1966; rpt. Charlottesville:
Published for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation by
the University Press of Virginia, 1986.
LC Call Number: E332 .86 1986 [Catalog
Record]
Boyd, Julian P., et al, eds. The Papers
of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1950-.
LC Call Number: E 302 .J442 1950a [Catalog
Record]
Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson
Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson
and Abigail and John Adams. 1959; rpt. Chapel Hill:
Published for the Institute of Early American History and
Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North
Carolina Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E322 .A4 1988 [Catalog
Record]
Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. The Works
of Thomas Jefferson. 12 vols. New York; London: The
Knickerbocker Press, 1904.
LC Call Number: E302 .J472 [Catalog
Record]
Kimball, Fiske, ed. Thomas Jefferson:
Architect. Original Designs in the Collection of Thomas Jefferson
Coolidge, Junior, with an Essay and Notes by Fiske Kimball.
Boston: Printed for Private Distribution at the Riverside
Press, Cambridge, 1916.
LC Call Number: E332 .J48 (Rare Bk. Coll.) [Catalog
Record]
Note:
Portions of this work have been made available online
by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
(IATH) at the University of Virginia.
Lipscomb, Andrew A., and Albert Ellery Bergh, eds. The
Writings of Thomas Jefferson. 20 vols. Washington,
D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1905.
LC Call Number: E302 .J474 [Catalog
Record]
Peterson, Merrill D., ed. Thomas Jefferson:
Writings. New York: Library of America, 1984.
LC call number: E302 .J442 1984 [Catalog
Record]
Smith, James Morton, ed. The Republic
of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison, 1776-1826. 3 vols. New York: Norton,
1995.
LC Call Number: E332.88 .M33 1995 [Catalog
Record]
Appleby, Joyce. Thomas Jefferson.
New York: Times Books, 2003.
LC Call Number: E332 .A67 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Bernstein, Richard B. Thomas Jefferson.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
LC Call Number: E332 .B47 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Burstein, Andrew. The Inner Jefferson:
Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. Charlottesville: University
Press of Virginia, 1995.
LC Call Number: E332 .B96 1995 [Catalog
Record]
Cunningham, Noble E. In Pursuit of Reason:
The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1987.
LC Call Number: E332 .C95 1987 [Catalog
Record]
Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The
Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1997.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .E45 1997 [Catalog
Record]
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time.
6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-81.
LC Call Number: E332 .M25 [Catalog
Record]
Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson
and the New Nation: A Biography. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1970.
LC Call Number: E332 .P45 [Catalog
Record]
-----. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference
Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986.
LC Call Number: E 332 .T43 1986 [Catalog
Record]
Adams, William Howard. The Paris Years
of Thomas Jefferson. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1997.
LC Call Number: E332.45 .A32 1997 [Catalog
Record]
-----, ed. The Eye of Th. Jefferson.
Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1976.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .E88 [Catalog
Record]
Addis, Cameron. Jefferson's Vision for
Education, 1760-1845. New York: Peter Lang, 2003
LC Call Number: LB695.J42 A33 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Bailey, Jeremy D. Thomas Jefferson and
Executive Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007.
LC Call Number: JK511 .B35 2007 [Catalog
Record]
Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson:
Statesman of Science. New York: Macmillan, 1990. LC
Call Number: E332.2 .B37 1990 [Catalog
Record]
Burstein, Andrew. Jefferson's Secrets:
Death and Desire at Monticello. New York: Basic Books,
2005.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .B858 2005 [Catalog
Record]
Dewey, Frank L. Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986.
LC Call Number: KF363.J4 D48 1986 [Catalog
Record]
Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses
of Monticello: An American Family. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
LC Call Number: E332.74 .G67 2008 [Catalog
Record]
-----. Thomas Jefferson
and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1997.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .G67 1997 [Catalog
Record]
Hayes, Kevin J. The Road to Monticello:
The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .H395 [Catalog
Record]
Howard, Hugh. Thomas Jefferson, Architect:
The Built Legacy of Our Third President. With photographs
by Roger Straus III. New York: Rizzoli International Publications,
2003.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .H68 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson and
the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello.
Rev. ed., with a foreword by James P. Ronda. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .J32 1993 [Catalog
Record]
Johnstone, Robert M., Jr. Jefferson
and the Presidency: Leadership in the Young Republic.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
LC Call Number: E331 .J69 [Catalog
Record]
Lewis, Jan E., and Peter S. Onuf, eds. Sally
Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .S24 1999 [Catalog
Record]
Mayer, David N. The Constitutional Thought
of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 1994.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .M38 1994 [Catalog
Record]
Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the
Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. 1977; rpt. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1991.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .M54 1991 [Catalog
Record]
McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello:
The Biography of a Builder. New York: H. Holt, 1988.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .M43 1988 [Catalog
Record]
Nichols, Frederick Doveton, and Ralph E. Griswold. Thomas
Jefferson, Landscape Architect. Charlottesville: University
Press of Virginia, 1978.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .N53 [Catalog
Record]
Onuf, Peter S. The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .O59 2007 [Catalog
Record]
-----, ed. Jeffersonian Legacies.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .J48 1993 [Catalog
Record]
Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image
in the American Mind. 1960; rpt. Charlotteville: University
Press of Virginia, 1998.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .P4 1998 [Catalog
Record]
Sheldon, Garrett Ward. The Political
Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1991.
LC Call Number: E332.2 .S54 1991 [Catalog
Record]
Sowerby, E. Millicent, comp. Catalogue
of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. 5 vols. Washington,
D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-59.
LC Call Number: Z881 .U5 1952j [Catalog
Record]
Note:
This work has been made available online
by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library
of Congress.
Wallace, Anthony F. C. Jefferson and
the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans.
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1999.
LC Call Number: E93 .W18 1999 [Catalog
Record]
Guidas, John T, and Marilyn K. Parr, comps. The
Presidents of the United States: The First Twenty Years.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993.
LC Call Number: Z1239 .P74 1993 E310 [Catalog
Record]
Parr, Marilyn K., comp. Thomas
Jefferson: An American Man for All Seasons.
Library of Congress.
Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of the
United States--Their Written Measure: A Bibliography.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996.
LC Call Number: Z1249.P7 S29 1996 [Catalog
Record]
Shuffelton, Frank. Thomas Jefferson:
November 3, 2008ritings about
Him (1826-1980). New York: Garland Pub., 1983.
LC Call Number: Z8452 .S55 1983 E332 [Catalog
Record]
-----. Thomas Jefferson, 1981-1990:
An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub.,
1992.
LC Call Number: Z8452 .S54 1992 E332 [Catalog
Record]
Note:
Both Shuffelton bibliographies are available online,
with thousands of additional annotations, from the University
of Virginia Library.
Bernstein, Richard B. Thomas Jefferson:
The Revolution of Ideas. Oxford; New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004.
LC Call Number: E332.79 .B47 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Blumberg, Rhoda. What's the Deal? Jefferson,
Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase. Washington, D.C.:
National Geographic Society, 1998.
LC Call Number: DC157 .B55 1998 [Catalog
Record]
Bober, Natalie S. Thomas Jefferson:
Draftsman of a Nation. Charlottesville: University
of Virginia Press, 2007.
LC Call Number: E332.79 .B625 2007 [Catalog
Record]
Ferris, Jeri. Thomas Jefferson: Father
of Liberty. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1998.
LC Call Number: E332.79 .F47 1998 [Catalog
Record]
Harness, Cheryl. Thomas Jefferson.
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2004.
LC Call Number: E332.79 .H375 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Meltzer, Milton. Thomas Jefferson: The
Revolutionary Aristocrat. New York: F. Watts, 1991.
LC Call Number: E332.79 .M45 1991 [Catalog
Record]
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