Thomas Jefferson/Bibliography

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Biography

• Bernstein, Richard B. Thomas Jefferson (2005) short biography excerpt and text search
• Cunningham, Noble E. Jr . In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1988, short biography)
• Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1998), interpretive essays excerpt and text search
• Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition (1948), chapter on TJ online at ACLS e-books
• Kimball, Marie. Jefferson, War and Peace, 1776 to 1784 1947 online edition
• McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (1987) intellectual history approach to TJ's presidency
• Malone, Dumas. v. 1, "Jefferson the Virginian (1948); v. 2 Jefferson and the Rights of man ;v.3: Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty ; v. 4: Jefferson the President: First Term 1801 - 1805; v. 5: Jefferson the President: Second term, 1805-1809; v.6: The Sage of Monticello (1948-70), the standard scholarly biography
• Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (1986), long, detailed biography by leading scholar; online edition
• Peterson, Merrill D. ed. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography. (1986), very good, encyclopedic essays
• Schachner, Nathan. Thomas Jefferson: A Biography (1957) 1074 pgs. online edition

Politics and diplomacy

• Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Library of America, 1986.
• Bassett, John Spencer. The Federalist System, 1789-1801 (1906) old scholarly survey; online edition
• Bowers, Claude G. Jefferson and Hamilton (1925), a slashing attack on Hamilton as unamerican aristocrat
• Channing, Edward. The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811. Vol. 12 of The American Nation: A History, Series, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906.
• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. Jeffersonian Republicans: The Formation of Party Organization: 1789–1801 (1957), highly detailed party history
• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations 1801–1809 (1963), highly detailed party history
• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Process of Government Under Jefferson (1978)
• Dawson, Matthew Q. Partisanship and the Birth of America's Second Party, 1796-1800: Stop the Wheels of Government. Greenwood, (2000) online version
• Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism. (1993), the most advanced history of politics in 1790s online edition
• Ferling, John. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 Oxford University Press, 2004 online edition
• Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1754–1829 ed. by (2005), 1600 pp.
• Koch, Adrienne. Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. (1943) online edition
• Miller, John C. The Federalist Era: 1789-1801 (1960), scholarly survey
• Rodriguez, Junius, ed. The Louisiana Purchase: An Encyclopedia (2002)
• Sharp, James. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. (1995), survey of politics in 1790s
• Smelser, Marshall. The Democratic Republic: 1801-1815 (1968) good one-volume history of TJ's presidency and Madison's;
• Tucker, Robert W. and David C. Hendrickson. Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (1992) best guide to foreign policy excerpt and text search
• Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. (2005), broad-scale interpretation of political history

Political philosophy

• Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology (1978) excerpt and text search
• Beard, Charles A. The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915) online edition
• Brown; Stuart Gerry. The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison (1954)online.
• Buel, Richard. Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789–1815 (1972)
• Griswold, A. Whitney. "The Agrarian Democracy of Thomas Jefferson," American Political Science Review 60. 4 (August 1946): 657–81. in JSTOR
• Hardt, Michael. "Jefferson and Democracy." American Quarterly, 2007 59(1): 41-78. Issn: 0003-0678 Fulltext: Project Muse
• Onuf, Peter. Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001) excerpt and text search
• Onuf, Peter S. The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. (2007). 281 pp.
• Wiltse, Charles Maurice. The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy (1935) online edition

Historiography, memorials and reputation

• Onuf, Peter ed. Jeffersonian Legacies (1993), scholarly essays excerpt and text search
• Onuf, Peter. "The Scholars' Jefferson," William and Mary Quarterly 1993 50(4): 671-699; overview of historiography; in JSTOR
• Pasley, Jeffrey L. "Politics and the Misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's Modern Reputation: A Review Essay, Journal of Southern History (Nov 2006) 72#4
• Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960)

Primary sources

• Jefferson, Thomas. Writings (1984, Library of America); includes Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, Addresses and Letters. 1600pp
• Jefferson, Thomas. Political Writings, edited by Joyce Appleby and Terence Ball; Cambridge University Press, 1999 online edition