CREDITS
FRONT COVER
Painting by Michael Deas for TIME
TITLE PAGE
1 (flag) Roel Smart/Getty Images; (inset) Thomas Jefferson Portrait by Rembrandt Peale, 1800/The White House Historical Association (White House Collection)
CONTENTS
2 Getty Images 3 Illustration by C.F. Payne
INTRODUCTION
5 Thomas Jefferson Portrait by Rembrandt Peale, 1800/The White House Historical Association (White House Collection) 7 Deb Snelson/Getty Images 9 Corbis 11 Copy of Thomas Jefferson Portrait by Rembrandt Peale (detail), 1805/Photo by Eric Van Den Brulle/Getty Images
TIMELINE
(Chronological order) 12 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs/N.Y. Public Library; Universal History Archive/Getty Images; Allyn Cox/© RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, N.Y.; MPI/Getty Images; Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; MPI/Getty Images; MPI/Getty Images; Ed Vebell/Getty Images; Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; John Parrot/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images; Culture Club/Getty Images; Corbis; no credit 13 Corbis; ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation; Ted Thai/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; Richard Cosway, circa 1785–1790/By kind permission of the Trustees of the Wallace Collection, London/Art Resource, N.Y.; Library of Congress; Howard Chandler Christy, 1940/GraphicaArtis/Getty Images; The Art Archive at Art Resource, N.Y.; Leemage/Corbis; Everett Collection/Alamy; DeAgostini/Getty Images; Corbis; DeAgostini/Getty Images; no credit 14 ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello; John Trumbull/Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images; Fotosearch/Getty Image; John Vanderlyn, 1802/FineArt/Alamy; Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States; Library of Congress; no credit; GraphicaArtis/Corbis; Buffalo Bill Center of the West/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY; North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy; Gilbert Stuart, 1805/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, gift of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation. Owned jointly with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello; The Print Collector/Getty Images; Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis 15 Tarker/Corbis; Alexander Hesler/Fotosearch/Getty Images; Jane Pitford Braddick Peticolas, 1825/©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello; Thomas Birch, circa 1813/Bettmann Corbis; Library of Congress; Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images; Brooklyn Historical Society; Private Collection/©Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images; North Wind Picture Archive/Alamy; Clyde De Land/Corbis; Blue Lantern Studio/Corbis; Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts/Massachusetts Historical Society; DBimages/Alamy
CONFOUNDING FATHER
16 Illustration by Mark Summers for TIME 19 Corbis Bettmann 20 Print by William Burch, 1800/The Library Company of Philadelphia 21 Giani Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY
FREE TO BE HAPPY
23 Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress 24 Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume; Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va./Bridgeman Art Library
GOD OF OUR FATHERS
26 Illustration by Jeffrey Fisher for TIME
THE JEFFERSON BIBLE
29 Photo by Hugh Talman/Division of Political History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 31 Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes by Juan de Flandes, 1505/Photo by Album/Art Resource, N.Y.
THE BEST OF ENEMIES
32 Illustration by Barry Blitt for TIME 34 (left) Wodicka/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images; De Agostini/Getty Images 35 Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806/Photo by Francis G. Mayer/Corbis 37 John Adams by Asher B. Durand/U.S. Navy Photo/Naval Historical Center
FOUNDING FAIR PLAY
38 Photograph by Hugh Talman/Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History 41 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
CARTOONS: DRAWN AND QUARTERED
42 (top) Library of Congress; Harvard University, Houghton Library 43 (clockwise from top) A Philosophic Cock, 1804 (colour lithograph), American School, (19th century)/American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA/Bridgeman Images; Granger, NYC (detail); Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images
TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI
44 Burning of Frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor in 1804 by Nicolino Calyo/The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Va. 47 Corbis (2) 49 Photos 12/Alamy
WESTWARD BOUND
51 Illustration by David Bowers for TIME 52 Corbis 53 Painting by Alfred Russell/Corbis 54 Missouri History Museum, St. Louis 55 Walter Larrimore/Smithsonian Institution
ALL IN THE FAMILY
56 (top) Richard Knox Robinson; Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images 57 Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images 59 Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images 60 (top) ©Jon Styer/Eastern Mennonite University; Willie J. Allen Jr./The New York Times/Redux 61 Gillian Laub
WAS THE SAGE A HYPOCRITE?
62 (left) Isaac Jefferson. Daguerreotype, 1847, in the Tracy W. McGregor Library, Accession #2041, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.; antislavery medallion by Josiah Wedgwood, 1787/The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, N.Y. 63 Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts/Massachusetts Historical Society
ARCHITECT OF DEMOCRACY
64 Book II Plate XV from The architecture of A. Palladio/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia 65 Mick Rock/Cephas Picture Library/Alamy 67 (top) E+/Getty Images; Jason Langley/Aurora Photos 68 ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello 69 (top) The New York Public Library/Art Resource, N.Y.; Book I Plate XVIII from The architecture of A. Palladio/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
MIRROR OF THE MAN
70 TIME Graphic by Ed Gabel and Jackson Dykman
INSIDE MONTICELLO
72 (clockwise from top) ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello (3); Jack Looney/©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello 73 ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello (2); Jack Looney/©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello
JEFFERSON’S SECRET HIDEAWAY
74 John Henley/Courtesy of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest; (inset) Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images 75 John Henley/Courtesy of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (3); Illustration by Diane Johnson/Courtesy of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
AMERICA’S FIRST FOODIE
76–83 Photographs by Robbie Caponetto/Courtesy of Southern Living Magazine (13)
SOMMELIER IN CHIEF
85 Edwin Remsberg/Alamy 86 Sarah Cramer/©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello 87 (top) Phillip Beaurline/©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello; Ferdinand Julius Dreer Collection/Historical Society of Pennsylvania
VIRGINIA TECHIE
88–89 ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello (7) 90 ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello (4) 91 (clockwise from top) ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello; Edward Owen/©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello (2); Smithsonian Institution
A LIFE IN LETTERS
92 Robert Lautman/©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello 93 Library of Congress 94 (top) The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images; Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. by Edmund P. Archer/Courtesy of Library of Virginia; 95 Bettmann Corbis
CREDITS/MASTHEAD
96 (Jefferson Memorial) Zubin Li/Getty Images
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