Notes on the State of Virginia (The Norton Library N647)

xxv, [3], 315, [9] pp. Edited with a foreword and introduction by William Peden. From the front cover: "[T]he only full-length book Jefferson published during his lifetime, recognized today as the best single statement of his principles." "Jefferson's chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom."