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Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book
By (Author) D. L. Wilson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Political leaders and leadership
973.46092
Hardback
264
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
539g
This work is a new edition of Thomas Jefferson's literary commonplace book, a notebook of his literary and philosophical reading. Unlike the only previous edition, published in 1928, it contains full annotation, pertinent information on the authors and works commonplaced, and a rationale for dating the entries. Thus it is now possible to show that