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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