Collecting : Adams and Jefferson as book collectors -- Thoughts, care, and money : John Adams assembles his library / Beth Prindle -- "The whole of recorded knowledge" : Jefferson as collector and reader / Mark Dimunation -- John Stockdale, London bookseller and publisher of Adams and Jefferson / Eric Stockdale -- Reading : the engagement with books -- John Adams's marginalia, then and now / Heather J. Jackson -- "Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write" : John Adams's use of reading as political and constitutional armory / Richard Bernstein -- Learning : the influence of books -- Whig lawyering in the legal education of Thomas Jefferson / David T. Konig -- Taking the Enlightenment abroad : Thomas Jefferson in France / Frank Shuffelton -- "Considerably different for her sex" : a reading plan for Martha Jefferson / Billy Wayson -- Acting : the use of knowledge and belief -- "History is not the providence of the ladies" : Adams, Jefferson, and histories of revolution / Martha J. King -- A John Adams paradox : provincial lawyer, cosmopolitan reader, ardent nationalist / Richard Alan Ryerson -- John Adams, Thomas Pownall, and peace in 1780 / Gregg L. Lint -- Jefferson, Buffon, and the European view of America / Keith S. Thomson -- Appendix 1: The contributors -- Appendix 2: The institutions.
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