The libraries, leadership, & legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
2010
923.173 L697 2010
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Title
The libraries, leadership, & legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Variant Title
Libraries, leadership, and legacy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Published
Golden, Colo. : Boston, Mass. : Fulcrum Pub. ; Massachusetts Historical Society, c2010.
Description
xxvi, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
923.173 L697 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)601127443
Note
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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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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