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The libraries, leadership, & legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Title
The libraries, leadership, & legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / edited by Robert C. Baron and Conrad Edick Wright.
ISBN
9781936218080 (hc)
1936218089 (hc)
Published
Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub. ; Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society, c2010.
Physical Description
xxvi, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Variant and related titles
Libraries, leadership, and legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-294).
Contents
Collecting : Adams and Jefferson as book collectors: Thoughts, care, and money : John Adams assembles his library / Beth Prindle ; "The whole of recorded knowledge" : Jefferson as collector and reader / Mark Dimunation ; John Stockdale, London bookseller and publisher of Adams and Jefferson / Eric Stockdale
Reading : the engagement with books: John Adams's marginalia, then and now / H.J. Jackson ; "Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write" : John Adams's use of reading as political and constitutional armory / R.B. Bernstein
Learning : the influence of books: Whig lawyering in the legal education of Thomas Jefferson / David T. Konig ; Taking the Enlightenment abroad : Thomas Jefferson in France / Frank Shuffelton ; "Considerably different for her sex" : a reading plan for Martha Jefferson / Billy Wayson
Acting : the use of knowledge and belief: "The province of history" : Adams, Jefferson, and histories of revolution / Martha J. King ; A John Adams paradox : provincial lawyer, cosmopolitan reader, ardent nationalist / Richard Alan Ryerson ; John Adams, Thomas Pownall, and peace in 1780 / Gregg L. Lint ; Jefferson, Buffon, and the European view of America / Keith S. Thomson.
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