A Companion to Thomas Jefferson presents a state-of-the-art
assessment and overview of the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson
through a collection of essays grounded in the latest
scholarship.
* Features essays by the leading scholars in the field, including
Pulitzer Prize winners Annette Gordon-Reed and Jack Rakove
* Includes a section that considers Jefferson’s legacy
* Explores Jefferson’s wide range of interests and
expertise, and covers his public career, private life, his views on
democracy, and his writings
* Written to be accessible for the non-specialist as well as
Jefferson scholars
Cuprins
List of Figures and Tables x
Notes on Contributors xi
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction xix
Francis D. Cogliano
PART I JEFFERSON’S LIFE AND TIMES 1
1 Jefferson and Biography 3
Annette Gordon-Reed
2 Jefferson’s Virginia 16
Michael A. Mc Donnell
3 Thomas Jefferson and A Summary View of the Rights of
British North America 32
Kristofer Ray
4 The Declaration of Independence 44
Robert G. Parkinson
5 ‘I have known’: Thomas Jefferson, Experience, and
Notes on the State of Virginia 60
Peter Thompson
6 The Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom
75
John A. Ragosta
7 A Republican Reformation: Thomas Jefferson’s Civil
Religion and the Separation of Church from State 91
Johann N.Neem
8 The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson 110
Iain Mc Lean
9 Jefferson as Party Leader 128
Todd Estes
10 A Qualified Revolution: The Presidential Election of 1800
145
Joanne B. Freeman
11 The (Federalist?) Presidency of Thomas Jefferson 164
Robert M.S. Mc Donald
12 From ‘Floating Ardor’ to the ‘Union of
Sentiment’: Jefferson on the Relationship between Public
Opinion and the Executive 184
Jeremy D. Bailey
13 Jefferson and International Relations 199
Leonard J. Sadosky
14 Jefferson in Retirement 218
Andrew Burstein
PART II THEMES 235
15 Thomas Jefferson and Native Americans 237
Andrew Cayton
16 Thomas Jefferson: Planter and Farmer 253
Lucia Stanton
17 Thomas Jefferson and Slavery 271
Cassandra Pybus
18 Sally Hemings 284
Catherine Kerrison
19 Thomas Jefferson and Affairs of the Heart 301
Billy L. Wayson
20 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams 318
Richard Samuelson
21 The Libraries of Thomas Jefferson 333
Kevin J. Hayes
22 Jefferson and the Law 349
David Thomas Konig
23 Thomas Jefferson, Cosmopolitanism, and the Enlightenment
364
Hannah Spahn
24 Thomas Jefferson and the Ancient World 380
Caroline Winterer
25 Jefferson and American Democracy 397
Peter S. Onuf
26 Thomas Jefferson and Constitutionalism 419
R.B. Bernstein
27 Political Economy 439
Max M. Edling
28 Jefferson and Education 457
Cameron Addis
PART III LEGACY 475
29 History, Politics, and the Self: Jefferson’s
‘Anas’ and Autobiography 477
Matthew E. Crow
30 ‘For Generations to Come’: Creating the
‘Definitive’ Jefferson Edition 491
Barbara B. Oberg and James P. Mc Clure
31 Preservation and Education: Monticello and the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation 510
Francis D. Cogliano
32 Jefferson’s Legacy: The Nation as Interpretative
Community 526
Brian Steele
33 Thomas Jefferson in the Twenty-First Century 551
Jack N. Rakove
Bibliography 567
Index 595
Despre autor
Francis D. Cogliano is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in the history of revolutionary and early national America, Cogliano is the author or editor of several books on American history, including Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy (2006) and Revolutionary America: A Political History (2000, 2009).