The Portable Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson


The Portable Thomas Jefferson
Title : The Portable Thomas Jefferson
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ISBN : 0140150803
ISBN-10 : 9780140150803
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 589
Publication : First published January 1, 1975

Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.

The Portable Thomas Jefferson Reviews

  • Paul

    3.5

  • Rhonda Koppelmann

    Good for content - not necessarily for enjoyment

  • Ashok

    You're not going to find me recommending the portable Nietzsche, but this edition works for students and scholars. You not only get the notes on the State of Virginia, the Declaration of Independence complete with the parts edited out by others (it's from his Autobiography, if I remember correctly), but you also get a host of public papers and addresses (the
    First Inaugural is of especial note, as it is very well-constructed) and a host of letters, some of which are very famous: the one declaring "separation of church and state," another saying
    "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living," and so on.

    I can't really emphasize how useful this edition has been to me personally. I've mused on plenty of writings within it, most recently the
    letter to William Ludlow, 9/6/1824.

  • Gwen Kaplan

    I wouldn't call it exceptionally portable (except that it is not a multi-volume hardcover set, which I admit is convenient). However, the wide variety of writings that were selected for inclusion definitely left me with an appreciation for the many facets of Jefferson's thinking, and I would recommend this to anyone interested in him.

  • Gwen

    Thomas Jefferson wrote beautifully no matter his topic.