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Article: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2008
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Volume 2:16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810; Volume 3:12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney and others. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, 2005, 2006. Pp. xliv, 728; xlviii, 705. $99.50, ISBN 978-0-691-12490-2; $99.50, ISBN 978-0-691-12867-2.)
No one has ever claimed that getting inside Thomas Jefferson's head is a simple task. In two volumes whose contents range from party politics and the coming war with Great Britain to Jefferson's globetrotting commerce in seeds, the remarkably thorough editors of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series are hot on the trail ...
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Article: Don't Knock Thomas Jefferson
The Washington Post;
October 24, 1992 ;
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...So the trashing of Thomas Jefferson is well underway {"Thomas Jefferson, Tarnished Icon?" Style, Oct. 17}. He was...truth wherever it might lead. In the case of Thomas Jefferson, all Americans can be thankful that it led...
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