Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 (Jefferson and His Time, Volume 4)

xxix, 539 pp. In the fourth volume of this comprehensive study, Jefferson acquires the vast territory of Louisiana for the United States, challenges the growing power of the federal judiciary, continues to press his opposition to the Hamiltonian doctrine of an overriding central government, assumes the unchallenged leadership of his party, and is universally acknowledged as the preeminent American patron of science and general learning.