I A VIRGINIA BOYHOOD 3 II AN AMERICAN DISCIPLE OF GREECE AND OLD ENGLAND 19 III A VIRGINIA LAWYER 34
BOOK TWO: _Jefferson and the American Revolution_
I THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 59 II THE REVISION OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA 86 III GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA--THE "NOTES ON VIRGINIA" 108 IV A STATESMAN'S APPRENTICESHIP 137
I SOCIETY AND TRAVEL 159 II GALLO-AMERICAN COMMERCE AND THE DEBT QUESTION 176 III UNION AND ISOLATION 194 IV JEFFERSON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 215
I THE QUARREL WITH HAMILTON 245 II JACOBIN OR AMERICAN? 274 III MONTICELLO--AGRICULTURE AND POLITICS 298 IV "THE DICTATES OF REASON AND PURE AMERICANISM" 321 V POLITICAL LEADER AND STRATEGIST 343
I "ALL REPUBLICANS, ALL FEDERALISTS" 379 II PROTECTIVE IMPERIALISM AND TERRITORIAL EXPANSION 396 III "SELF-PRESERVATION IS PARAMOUNT TO ALL LAW" 425 IV "PEACE AND COMMERCE WITH EVERY NATION" 440
I "AMERICA HAS A HEMISPHERE TO ITSELF" 467 II DEMOCRATIC AMERICA 489 III THE PHILOSOPHY OF OLD AGE 513
BUST OF THOMAS JEFFERSON BY HOUDON _Frontispiece_ _In the possession of the New York Historical Society_
A PAGE OF JEFFERSON'S REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 80 _From the manuscript in the possession of the Library of Congress_
A PAGE FROM JEFFERSON'S "COMMONPLACE BOOK" 102 _From the manuscript in the possession of the Library of Congress_
LAFAYETTE 206 _After a lithograph from the portrait by Grevedon_
ALEXANDER HAMILTON 256 _From the painting by John Trumbull in the possession of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass._
THOMAS JEFFERSON 290 _From the portrait by Rembrandt Peale_
THOMAS JEFFERSON 468 _From the portrait by Kosciuszko_
The peoples of the Old World worship at the birthplaces of their national heroes and bury their mortal remains in splendid mausoleums, pantheons or Westminster Abbeys. By a significant and symbolic contrast, the memories of Washington and Jefferson are enshrined in no ancestral homes, but in the mansions planned with loving care, in which they so expressed themselves that their very spirit seems to haunt the deserted rooms of Mount Vernon and Monticello. They are buried according to their wishes on their own land, at the very center of the acres they had themselves surveyed and reclaimed from the wilderness, close to nature and Mother Earth. However great may be their debt to the past and their remote ancestors, they stand by themselves at the threshold of America's national history,--master builders who wrestled with gigantic tasks and first thought of their country as the future home of unborn millions.