Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Personal Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America)

Essentially the most complete assortment of the Founding Father’s well-known writings, together with drafts of the Declaration of Independence

 

For the time being of our nation’s start, Thomas Jefferson outlined the problems that also direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary number of pursuits and highly effective and exact fashion, Jefferson’s writings are a useful and incisive file of the panorama, inhabitants, life, and every day customs of America within the Revolutionary and early nationwide eras.

 

This e book is essentially the most complete one-volume number of Jefferson ever revealed. It comprises such well-known works as “Autobiography” and “Notes on the State of Virginia.” A sequence of addresses, 287 letters, and private and non-private writings—together with the unique and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence—spherical out the gathering, portray not solely a portrait of the early days of America however of probably the most influential and controversial figures in our nation’s historical past.

 

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an unbiased nonprofit cultural group based in 1979 to protect our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and maintaining completely in print, America’s greatest and most vital writing. The Library of America sequence consists of greater than 300 volumes to this point, authoritative editions that common 1,000 pages in size, function fabric covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that may final for hundreds of years.