Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
A Life in Letters
To The Shores of Tripoli
Ignoring the Revolution Next Door
A Family Divided
Was the Sage a Hypocrite?
The Best of Enemies
The Patriot Act of the 18th Century
God Of Our Fathers
Where are the Jeffersons of Today?

Bejamin Banneker
Jimmy Carter on Jefferson
Jefferson on the Web
Bibliography
A Founding Father's Final Lesson
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Monticello
The estate reflects Jefferson: his obsessions, his contradictions, and his brilliance
Jefferson's Virginia
A map of important places in Jefferson's life
Timeline
The public & private life of Thomas Jefferson
The Barbary Coast
America's first war on terror

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Allison, Robert J. The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Get this book from Amazon.com

Bernstein, R. B. Thomas Jefferson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Get this book from Amazon.com

Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998. Get this book from Amazon.com

Cerami, Charles and Robert M. Silverstein. Jefferson's Great Gamble. Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003. Get this book from Amazon.com

Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. Get this book from Amazon.com

Dunn, Susan. Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. Get this book from Amazon.com

Ferling, John. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Get this book from Amazon.com

Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Get this book from Amazon.com

Miller, John C. Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts. New York: Amereon Ltd., 2002. Get this book from Amazon.com

Onuf, Peter S., ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1993. Get this book from Amazon.com

Petersen, Eric S., ed. Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: The Modern Library, 2004. Get this book from Amazon.com

Peterson, Merrill D., ed. Thomas Jefferson: Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1984. Get this book from Amazon.com

Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. W. W. Norton and Co., 1998. Get this book from Amazon.com

Peterson, Merrill D., ed. Thomas Jefferson: Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1984. Get this book from Amazon.com



























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