Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Sense of Jefferson.

Chapter One: Revolutionary Statesman.

Chapter Two: Notes on the State of Virginia.

Chapter Three: New World and Old World.

Chapter Four: Jeffersonian Republicanism.

Chapter Five: The Revolution of 1800.

Chapter Six: Retirement Years.

About the Author

Peter S. Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001) and coauthor (with Leonard Sadosky) of Jeffersonian America (Blackwell, 2001); editor of Jeffersonian Legacies (1993) and coeditor (with James Horn and Jan Ellen Lewis) of The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (2002) and (with Jan Ellen Lewis) of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (1999).