Nonfiction · 1898
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
A short life of Jefferson organised around character rather than chronology: the Virginia upbringing and the education at William and Mary, the drafting of the Declaration, the years in France, the Secretaryship of State and the quarrel with Hamilton that produced the party system, the Presidency, the Louisiana Purchase and the embargo, and the long retirement at Monticello building the University of Virginia. Ellis is frank about the contradictions — the author of the Declaration who held slaves, the strict constructionist who bought Louisiana — and includes a selection of Jefferson's own writings and a chronology.
Edward Sylvester Ellis published the sketch in 1898. He wrote history and biography for general and school readers at great speed and in great quantity, and this belongs to a series of such lives of American statesmen.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the complete text.
Contents
- Note
- With an Account of the Louisiana Purchase Together with Anecdotes, Characteristics, and Chronology
- Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address—1801
- Jefferson’s Bridal Journey
- Would Make No Promises for the Presidency
- The Mould-Board of Least Resistance
- Jefferson as an Inventor
- Jefferson and the Jockey
- Jefferson and Patrick Henry
- Washington and Jefferson
- Influence of Prof. Small on Jefferson
- Jefferson and the University of Virginia
- The Financial Diary of Thomas Jefferson
- Horse Back Riding to Inauguration
- Cost of Servants, Etc
- Would Take No Presents
- Indolence
- Titles of Honor and Office
- The Term of the Presidency
- The Continental Congress and Lawyers
- The Declaration of Independence
- Jefferson and the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
- The Louisiana Purchase
- Jefferson and Benedict Arnold
- A Man of the People
- Aristocracy of Mind
- Evil Youthful Companions
- Read Little Fiction
- Neither Orator nor Good Talker
- Self-Control
- The Influence of Jefferson’s Sister
- Jefferson a Doctrinaire
- Reconciliation with John Adams
- Negro Colonization
- Educating American Boys Abroad
- The French Revolution
- Marriage
- Editors and Newspapers
- Ten Canons for Practical Life
- Adams and Jefferson
- The Story of Jefferson for a School or Club Programme
- Programme for a Jeffersonian Evening
- Questons for Review
- Subjects for Special Study
- Blbliography
New editions
Never lose your place.
This book is free to read in full, and stays that way. Leave an address: one click confirms it and opens a free account, so your progress and bookmarks sync across every device. You'll also hear when the next restored edition enters the archive. Terminate at any time.
About this edition
The text is free of copyright. This edition was prepared from an authoritative digitisation, processed by Bibliomancer under its own review protocol; every automated correction is recorded in its transformation log. Rights assessed for CA, EU, GB, US.
Source mind
About the author
Adjacent records
