Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Declaration of Independence and the new nation
- 2 Jefferson’s conception of republican government
- 3 Notes on the State of Virginia and the Jeffersonian West
- 4 Jefferson and Native Americans: policy and archive
- 5 Race and slavery in the era of Jefferson
- 6 Jefferson’s people: slavery at Monticello
- 7 Jefferson, science, and the Enlightenment
- 8 Thomas Jefferson and the creation of the American architectural image
- 9 The politics of pedagogy: Thomas Jefferson and the education of a democratic citizenry
- 10 Jefferson and religion: private belief, public policy
- 11 Jefferson and the language of friendship
- 12 Jefferson and Adams: friendship and the power of the letter
- 13 The resonance of minds: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the republic of letters
- 14 Jefferson and the democratic future
- Further reading
- Index
14 - Jefferson and the democratic future
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Declaration of Independence and the new nation
- 2 Jefferson’s conception of republican government
- 3 Notes on the State of Virginia and the Jeffersonian West
- 4 Jefferson and Native Americans: policy and archive
- 5 Race and slavery in the era of Jefferson
- 6 Jefferson’s people: slavery at Monticello
- 7 Jefferson, science, and the Enlightenment
- 8 Thomas Jefferson and the creation of the American architectural image
- 9 The politics of pedagogy: Thomas Jefferson and the education of a democratic citizenry
- 10 Jefferson and religion: private belief, public policy
- 11 Jefferson and the language of friendship
- 12 Jefferson and Adams: friendship and the power of the letter
- 13 The resonance of minds: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the republic of letters
- 14 Jefferson and the democratic future
- Further reading
- Index
Summary
When Thomas Jefferson summarized his legacy to the democratic future in the instructions that he left for his gravestone inscription, he omitted most of the historical and biographical landmarks of his long public career. His presidency goes unmentioned in Jefferson's austere self-assessment. The only book that he wrote, Notes on the State of Virginia, continued to occupy him with corrections and appendices long after its original 1787 publication, but Jefferson's epitaph ignores it.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson , pp. 193 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009