Twelve historians and Jefferson scholars discuss all aspects of Jefferson's personal and professional life and his era.

Includes index.

Thomas Jefferson: a brief life /Merrill Peterson -- Jefferson and the Enlightenment / Henry Steele Commager -- Prolegomena to a reading of the Declaration / Garry Wills -- The political economy of Thomas Jefferson / Richard E. Ellis -- Thomas Jefferson and the Italian Renaissance / Kenneth Clark -- Savage enough to prefer the woods: the cosmopolite and the West / William Goetzmann -- Jefferson and the press / James R. Wiggins -- Thomas Jefferson, architect / Walter Muir Whitehill -- The Declaration of Independence / Henry Steele Commager -- Jefferson as a civil libertarian / Leonard Levy -- The Jeffersonian legacy / Christopher Lasch.