autobiography of thos jefferson Author:Thomas Jefferson Tenth Impression — Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 59-9117 — SBN: 399-50039-8 — America's greatest political theorist, and the inheritor of the Renaissance ideal of the man of many talents, here has written a superb account of his early life including the time when he, a young man of thirty-three, wrote the Declaration of Independence. — Dum... more »as Malone, for mer editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of Americna Biography, professor of History at Columbia University, and the author of JEFFERSON AND TH RIGHTS OF MAN, THE STORY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, editor of THE JEFFERSONIAN HERITAGE, is the author os the introduction to this edition of the Autobiography, which fits Jefferson into his time and contributes knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the writing of the Declaration to the modern reader.
Contains Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration and emendations by Congress.« less