The Libraries, Leadership & Legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

TitleThe Libraries, Leadership & Legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2010
Series EditorBaron, Robert C., Wright, Conrad Edick
Number of Pages294 pp.
PublisherFulcrum Publishing and the Massachusetts Historical Society
CityGolden, CO
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781936218080
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Contents:
Collecting : Adams and Jefferson as book collectors.
Thoughts, care, and money : John Adams assembles his library / Beth Prindle
"The whole of recorded knowledge" : Jefferson as collector and reader / Mark Dimunation
John Stockdale, London bookseller and publisher of Adams and Jefferson / Eric Stockdale

Reading : the engagement with books.
John Adams's marginalia, then and now / H.J. Jackson
"Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write" : John Adams's use of reading as political and constitutional armory / R.B. Bernstein

Learning : the influence of books.
Whig lawyering in the legal education of Thomas Jefferson / David T. Konig
Taking the Enlightenment abroad : Thomas Jefferson in France / Frank Shuffelton
"Considerably different for her sex" : a reading plan for Martha Jefferson / Billy Wayson

Acting : the use of knowledge and belief.
"The province of history" : Adams, Jefferson, and histories of revolution / Martha J. King
A John Adams paradox : provincial lawyer, cosmopolitan reader, ardent nationalist / Richard Alan Ryerson
John Adams, Thomas Pownall, and peace in 1780 / Gregg L. Lint
Jefferson, Buffon, and the European view of America / Keith S. Thomson

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