The Complete Works
Founding Documents, Enlightenment Thought, Natural Rights, and the Contradictions of Early American DemocracyBy Thomas Jefferson
Length210h 44m
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Thomas Jefferson's *The Complete Works* presents the diverse literary and political writings of a central architect of the American republic. Encompassing declarations, addresses, correspondence, legislative proposals, autobiographical reflections, and works such as *Notes on the State of Virginia*, the collection reveals Jefferson's characteristic union of philosophical argument, empirical observation, and elegant neoclassical prose. Read in the context of the Enlightenment and the revolutionary Atlantic, these texts explore natural rights, religious liberty, education, agrarianism, federal power, and the contested meaning of equality. Their intellectual coherence is accompanied by striking contradictions, particularly the gulf between universal claims of liberty and the realities of slavery and Indigenous dispossession. Jefferson (1743–1826), principal drafter of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, diplomat, bibliophile, and founder of the University of Virginia, wrote amid the upheavals of imperial crisis and nation-building. His engagement with Locke, classical republicanism, science, architecture, and European political thought helped shape both his ideals and his prose. The works also record his efforts to interpret, defend, and revise those ideals throughout a long public career marked by political conflict and personal complexity. This volume is recommended to readers seeking a substantial primary-source encounter with the origins and dilemmas of American political culture. It rewards close study by historians, students of rhetoric, and anyone interested in the relationship between literary form and political power. More than a monument to Jefferson, it is an invitation to examine the promises, exclusions, and enduring arguments embedded in the nation's founding discourse.
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Length210 hrs 44 mins
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Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Queen Elizabeth (Annotated)
2Preface
3Autobiography
4Introduction
5Autobiography (pt. 1)
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6Autobiography (pt. 2)
7Appendix
8Note A: Letter to John Saunderson, Esq.
9Note B: Letter to Samuel A. Wells, Esq.
10Note C: On the Instructions Given to the First Delegation of Virginia to Congress, in August, 1774.
11Note D: Instructions for the Deputies Appointed to Meet in General Congress on the Part of This Colony.
12Note E
13Note F: Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage for the United States.
14Note G
15Note H
16Correspondence
17Introduction
18Correspondence Before His Mission to Europe, 1773-1783
19TO JOHN PAGE.
20TO JOHN PAGE.
21TO JOHN PAGE.
22TO JOHN PAGE.
23TO JOHN PAGE.
24TO GOVERNOR PAGE.
25TO JOHN PAGE.
26TO JOHN PAGE.
27TO CHAS. McPHERSON.
28TO COL. A. CARY.
29TO DR. WILLIAM SMALL.
30TO JOHN RANDOLPH, ESQ.
31TO JOHN RANDOLPH, ESQ,.
32TO RICHARD HENRY LEE.
33TO DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PARIS.
34TO JOHN ADAMS.
35TO ——.
36TO DAVID RITTENHOUSE.
37TO JOHN PAGE.
38TO GEORGE WYTHE.
39TO HIS EXCELLENCY PATRICK HENRY.
40TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
41TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
42TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
43TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
44TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
45TO COLONEL MATHEWS.
46TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
47TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
48TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
49TO GENERAL DE RIEDESEL.
50TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
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