Lexington Books
Pages: 174
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-1792-7 • Hardback • April 2008 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
David Tucker is associate professor in the department of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Epigraph
Chapter 3 Table of Contents
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 1 The Structure of Notes on the State of Virginia
Chapter 6 2 The Natural Order
Chapter 7 3 Human Nature
Chapter 8 4 Nature and Law
Chapter 9 5 The Origin and Object of Government
Chapter 10 6 Constitution and Laws
Chapter 11 7 Manners and Manufactures
Chapter 12 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Endnotes
Chapter 14 Bibliography
Chapter 15 Index
Combines impressive scholarship with wise judgments...
— Claremont Review of Books
Thomas Jefferson was the preeminent penman of the American Revolution and the early American republic. He drafted the Declaration of Independence; he composed the Virginia Statue of Religion Freedom; and he penned many an unforgettable letter. But he wrote only one book—his Notes on the State of Virginia—and until now it has not been the subject of a full-length commentary. David Tucker is to be praised for closely interrogating that work and for drawing attention to a neglected question on which it throws considerable light: the philosophical foundations of Jefferson's republicanism.
— Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College