Jefferson was, first and foremost, an amazingly good writer. His letters are studded with so many memorable lines that even if they weren't highly historically significant, reading them would be pure joy. This is the finest collection.

In one meaty volume, the very full life of America's greatest polymath/politician. Peterson's approach is sympathetic, but not worshipful, and his prose sparkles.

This volume is the first in 184 years to tell the history of American constitutionalism from a thoroughly Jeffersonian point of view.

A wonderful collection of essays on issues Jeffersonian. Onuf's choice of contributors is faultless, and the topics they address -- Jefferson as architect, Jefferson as father, Jefferson as master, Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, among others -- are of enduring interest. Everyone interested in American history should own this book.

When Thomas Jefferson said 'my country,' he always meant Virginia. Here we have the constitutional implications.

What a wonderful book! It's critical -- highly critical --, and intensely thought-provoking.

Jefferson's name has been appropriated to one of the great distortions of the American Constitution. Dreisbach's book makes all clear.

Burstein here provides the most acute account of Jefferson's personality, of the inner core of the 'American Sphinx.'

Madison (the fourth American president) was Jefferson's best friend and closest political confidant. The two of them shared some political aims, but had markedly different philosophical emphases and personalities. These volumes collect their entire surviving correspondence.

The old Jefferson was the Real Thing. Here he is in all his cantankerous glory.