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  • Published: 6 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781598530964
  • Imprint: Library of America
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 435
  • RRP: $29.99

Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings

A Library of America Paperback Classic




Thomas Jefferson defined, at the moment of our nation’s birth, the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson’s writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras, as well as a testimony to the brilliance of one of the most influential and controversial figures in our nation’s history.

  • Published: 6 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781598530964
  • Imprint: Library of America
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 435
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Thomas Jefferson

ERIC S. PETERSEN is a managing partner at the New York law firm of Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP. Educated at Brown University and the University of Chicago Law School, he has studied Jefferson’s life and works since 1993. He lives in Connecticut and can be reached at www.lightandliberty.org.

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