The Thomas Jefferson Collection includes Jefferson’s extended treatise describing the just society, Notes on the State of Virginia, his autobiography, and three classic biographical volumes examining the life and legacy of the United States’ third president, and first national mouthpiece.

David Saville Muzzey writes in his preface that he “wished only to write a truthful and readable account of the life of a great American citizen.” Unlike the other founding fathers, Muzzey sees the merit of Jefferson’s legacy as perpetually up for debate. Muzzey writes an eloquent and impassioned defense of Jefferson as amongst the greatest statesmen in American history.