Jefferson's Memorandum Books, Volume 1: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826
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Jefferson's Memorandum Books, Volume 1: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826
By (Author) Thomas Jefferson
Edited by James A. Bear
Edited by Lucia C. Stanton
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th May 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
History of the Americas
Political leaders and leadership
973.46092
Physical Properties
Hardback
870
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
1361g
Description
Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson'
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"Now, at long last, Jefferson's incomparable daily records of his transactions and activities are gathered together, lucidly transcribed, and carefully annotated. The result is a resource rich in possibility for those who seek to understand the man and his world."--Journal of Southern History
