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Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book
Language: en
Pages: 690
Authors: Thomas Jefferson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-23 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice,
On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Kenneth A. Lockridge
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09 - Publisher: NYU Press

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"A brilliant . . . analysis of the fragile hegemony and identities of colonial Virginia's elite men. . . . On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage compellingly illum
Persons and Masks of the Law
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: John T. Noonan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-29 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Noonan discusses how the concept of property, applied to a person, is a perfect mask since no trace of human identity remains. An auction of slaves in Virginia
The Road to Monticello
Language: en
Pages: 750
Authors: Kevin J. Hayes
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern language
Light and Liberty
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Thomas Jefferson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-14 - Publisher: Modern Library

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Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed,