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 ...

A popular independent bookstore in Jefferson City announced Monday it will close its doors. In a Facebook post, Downtown Book & Toy said its being forced to sell its Jefferson City location ...

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 ...

Downtown Book and Toy sits on Monday, April 14, 2025, at 125 E. High Street. The store, right in the heart of downtown ‘Jefferson City, possibly will be sold in the near future.

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 ...

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 ...

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Avast, all ye book lovers and bargain hunters! The Jefferson County Library Foundation (JCLF) is pleased to announce that its fall 2023 Whale of a Used Book Sale is scheduled from Thursday through ...