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| Jefferson's Memorandum Books | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas Jefferson
Creators: James A., Jr. Bear, Lucia Stanton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $240.00
Buy New: $149.98
You Save: $90.02 (38%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1655427
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1656
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.1
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 3.9
ISBN: 0691047197
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.46092
EAN: 9780691047195
ASIN: 0691047197
Publication Date: July 7, 1997
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Product Description
Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable curiosity.
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| Customer Reviews:
A Marvel of Editing! October 30, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jefferson's Memorandum Books are a marvel in themselves, but even more so with the editing work of Bear and Stanton. The Memorandum Books are transcribed to offer the reader Jefferson's records on money spent travelling from DC back to Monticello (p. 1094), the efficiency of one- vs. two-wheeled wheelbarrows (p. 282), or his early legal notations. But what makes this work invluable is the wealth of information that the editors have packed into the footnotes about everything from Jefferson's personal relationships at the time of an entry, to the location of a road or river he mentions, to whatever can be known about a slave paid for running an errand. To make the 1419 page (with footnotes) Jefferson document usable, the editors constructed a 203 page index to make the Memorandum Books as useful a tool as they could be. The scholarly apparatus here makes this publication a source for historians of just about anything, from the local to the national economy, slave life at Monticello and Virginia, the environment, and, of course, Thomas Jefferson. The only problem with the books is the price tag, which will inhibit many who don't have institutional support for their research tools.
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