At the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jeffersons writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras.

This book is the most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. It contains such famous works as "Autobiography" and "Notes on the State of Virginia." A series of addresses, 287 letters, and public and private writingsincluding the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independenceround out the collection, painting not only a portrait of the early days of America but of one of the most influential and controversial figures in our nation's history. Author: Thomas Jefferson. Editor: Merrill D. Peterson. Hardcover;1611 pages.

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