From his youth, Thomas Jefferson kept a commonplace book in which he jotted down memorable quotations from history, philosophy and literature. Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando ...

When he was young, Thomas Jefferson carefully copied those words — a quote from the great political philosopher Montesquieu — into his “commonplace book,” the private journal he kept as a ...

For the last 30 years or so, I've kept a kind of "Commonplace Book"** - a collection of writings, anything from a sentence or two to a couple of ...

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In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen.Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a ...