Jefferson's Shadow.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Young Jefferson -- ONE: Lost: One Large Moose -- TWO: The Man Who Could Not Live Without Books -- THREE: Schooling, Formal and Informal -- FOUR: A Measured and Orderly World -- PART TWO: Natural Science -- FIVE: Science and the Mastodon -- SIX: The Natural History of Virginia and America -- SEVEN: Mountains and Shells -- EIGHT: On Fossils and Extinction -- PART THREE: They, the People -- NINE: Europe and the Peoples of America -- TEN: Natural History, Slavery, and Race -- ELEVEN: The Color of Their Skin -- PART FOUR: Useful Knowledge -- TWELVE: The Paris Years -- THIRTEEN: The Practical Scientist -- PART FIVE: The National Stage -- FOURTEEN: Climate and Geography -- FIFTEEN: Redeeming the Wilderness -- SIXTEEN: The Unknown West -- PART SIX: Philosophical Issues -- SEVENTEEN: ''His Theories I Cannot Admire'' -- EIGHTEEN: Philosophers Unwelcome -- NINETEEN: Transcendental Truths -- Epilogue. Measuring the Shadow -- Appendix: Jefferson's Letter on Climate to Jean Baptiste Le Roy -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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