Introduction / Dumas Malone -- Thomas Jefferson : a brief life / Merrill Peterson -- Jefferson and the Enlightenment / Henry Steele Commager -- Prolegomena to a reading of the Declaration / Garry Wills -- Political economy of Thomas Jefferson / Richard E. Ellis -- Thomas Jefferson and the Italian Renaissance / Kenneth Clark -- Savage enough to prefer the woods : the cosmopolite and the West / William Goetzmann -- Jefferson and the press / James R. Wiggins -- Thomas Jefferson, architect / Walter Muir Whitehill -- Declaration of Independence / Henry Steele Commager -- Jefferson as a civil libertarian / Leonard Levy -- Jeffersonian legacy / Christopher Lasch
