Foreword / by Jon Meacham
Introduction: The many lives of Thomas Jefferson / Barbara Oberg
"Merely personal or private, with which we have nothing to do" : Thomas Jefferson's autobiographical writings / J. Jefferson Looney
"More loved ... and more hated" : George Tucker on Thomas Jefferson / Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M. S. McDonald
"Dexterity and delicacy of manipulation" : biographers Henry S. Randall and James Parton / Andrew Burstein
"A beautiful domestic character" : Sarah N. Randolph's The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson / Jan Ellen Lewis
Painting with a fine pencil : Henry Adams's Jefferson / Richard Samuelson
"I come to bury Caesar" : Burr biographers on Jefferson / Nancy Isenberg
Punching the ticket : Hamilton biographers and the sins of Thomas Jefferson / Joanne B. Freeman
Consulting the timeless oracle : the Thomas Jeffersons of Claude Bowers and Albert Jay Nock / Brian Steele
The cosmopolitan and the curator : Gilbert Chinard, Marie Goebel Kimball, and Jefferson biography in the mid-twentieth century / Herbert Sloan
The perils of definitiveness : Dumas Malone's Jefferson and his time / R.B. Bernstein
Merrill D. Peterson and the apostle of freedom : Thomas Jefferson and the new nation / Francis D. Cogliano
"That woman" : Fawn Brodie and Thomas Jefferson's intimate history / Annette Gordon-Reed
Afterword: A tribute to Peter Onuf / Gordon S. Wood.