Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation Book

Chronology     ix
Family Tree     xiii
Sentimental Revolutionary
On the Edge of the Wilderness     3
Discovering Devilsburg     19
"Bold in the Pursuit of Knowledge"     22
Rhetoric of Revolution     32
The Spirit of the Law     36
Zeal to Improve the World     39
First Assignment, First Failure     44
Essay in Architecture     50
All Men Are Born Free     55
"Worthy of the Lady"     59
Pen of a Revolution
"Young Hot-Heads"     69
The Rights of British America     74
A Masterly Pen     78
"An Expression of the American Mind"     90
A Revolutionary Document     101
Legal Reform in Virginia     118
Religious Liberty     120
"Public Service and Private Misery"     129
"One Fatal Stain"     137
"That Eternal Separation"     145
Facing the Enlightenment
A New Door Opens     153
"Behold Me on the Vaunted Scene of Europe"     162
Dialogue between the Head and the Heart     174
Changing the Shape of His Country     187
"She Must Come"     191
"Crusade against Ignorance"     196
A Summer of Violence     200
"Splendid Misery"
Conflict in the Cabinet     211
"Our Own Dear Monticello"     219
"I Have No Ambition to Govern Men"     232
"We Are All Republicans, We Are All Federalists"     241
Architect of American Expansion     253
Patriarch of Monticello
Octagonal Retreat     269
"A Fire Bell in the Night"     272
Scandal     274
"The Venerable Corps of Grandfathers"     276
"I Cannot Live without Books"     286
"Thomas Jefferson Still Survives"     293
Author's Note     305
Acknowledgments     310
Notes     315
Bibliography     333
Index     351