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Jefferson the Man:
In His Own Words

Robert C. Baron, editor

This short book focuses on the personal side of Thomas Jefferson through his own words. Subjects range from Jefferson’s ideas on exploration, on freedom and democracy to his feelings about friends, family, books, and gardening. Two short essays begin the book; the first is an introduction to Thomas Jefferson, his life and his legacy; the second focuses on Jefferson and the Library of Congress. Jefferson gave his personal library to reestablish the Library of Congress after the British burned Washington, DC. “I cannot live without books,” he wrote to John Adams.




		ISBN 1-55591-426-8 5.5 x 8, 72 pages paperback $7.95


	Jefferson once wrote, “I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things, but they have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.” For those who disagree with Jefferson on that point, this is a wonderful introduction to the man and his ideas.




		Excerpt Jefferson on Religion and Religious Freedom Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscious we never submitted, we could never submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said, his testimony in a court of Justice cannot be relied on; reject it then and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite, but it will never make him a true man. It may fix him obstinately in his errors, but will not cure them. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Notes on the State of Virginia 1781–1785



	Review This tribute to the nation’s third president explores many different topics in Jefferson’s own words, ranging from his ideas on exploration, science, freedom and democracy to his feelings about friends, family, books, education, and gardening. It includes an introductory essay, “Thomas Jefferson and the Library of Congress,” by Center for the Book director John Y. Cole —The Library of Congress Information Bulletin



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