Thomas Jefferson
Subtitle: A Brief Biography
Contributors: Merrill D. Peterson (Preface)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781882886005
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; Political leaders & leadership; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - Revolutionary War; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; USA; Historical - U.S.; Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents
First sentence: THOMAS JEFFERSON, statesman, diplomat, author, scientist, architect, apostle of freedom and enlightenment, was born on 13 April 1743, at Shadwell, in what is now Albemarle County, Virginia, then on the fringe of western settlement.