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The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)
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Journal of Southern History
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May 1, 2008
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The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. By Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. x, 281. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2611-7; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2578-3.)
The Founding Fathers are an old subject currently enjoying a remarkable revival, leading one to wonder what new revelations could possibly be made about them. Yet The Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Peter S. Onuf, the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor, is full of novel findings. Onuf has, of course, written much about Jefferson before, and twelve of the thirteen essays here, one coauthored with Jan Ellen Lewis, another with Ari Helo, have ...
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