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- The greatest biography of any American is Dumas Malone’s 6-volume Jefferson and His Time.
- The best brief introduction is R. B. Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson.
- For Jefferson’s presidency, the masterpiece is Henry Adams’ A History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Originally nine volumes, it has been published by the Library of America in two—the first of which is composed of the section on the Jefferson Administration.
- Readers who prefer a Hamiltonian Federalist approach to Henry Adams’ defense of his ancestor and/or brevity to verbosity should see Forrest McDonald’s wickedly insightful The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
- For Jefferson’s constitutionalism, consult David N. Mayer, The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson, which is an appreciative account by a libertarian scholar.