Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism

by Gilbert Chinard

CONTENTS

	[Introduction]
[BOOK ONE]: The Virginian
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]
[BOOK THREE]: An American View of Europe
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]
[BOOK FOUR]: Monocrats and Republicans
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]
[BOOK FIVE]: The Presidency
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]
[BOOK SIX]: The Sage of Monticello
I	"America Has a Hemisphere to Itself"	[467]
II	Democratic America	[489]
III	The Philosophy of Old Age	[513]
	[Index]	[533]

---

ILLUSTRATIONS

Bust of Thomas Jefferson by Houdon In the possession of the New York Historical Society	[Frontispiece]
A Page of Jefferson's Reflections on the Articles of Confederation From the manuscript in the possession of the Library of Congress	[80]
A Page from Jefferson's "Commonplace Book" From the manuscript in the possession of the Library of Congress	[102]
Lafayette After a lithograph from the portrait by Grevedon	[206]
Alexander Hamilton From the painting by John Trumbull in the possession of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.	[256]
Thomas Jefferson From the portrait by Rembrandt Peale	[290]
Monticello as It Appears To-day	[314]
Thomas Jefferson From the portrait by Kosciuszko	[468]

---