An Expression of the American Mind by Thomas Jeffersen (bog)

In 1825, a year before his death, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Revolutionary War hero Henry Lee to explain his purpose in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776. This collection presents the best of Jefferson’s writings in chronological order: pamphlets, speeches, constitutional drafts and above all correspondence. Here we find letters to George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Paine as well as the ‘Head and Heart’ letter written to Maria Cosway, a married artist whom the widowed Jefferson met in Paris in 1786 while he was Minister to France. These writings help us understand Jefferson the man, from his views on democracy and slavery.