Eight annual messages to Congress, from December 1801 to November 1808, in which the third president reports on peace in Europe, the Barbary corsairs, the Louisiana Purchase, Indian affairs, quarantines, the national debt and, at the close, the embargo. Each is a working report on the state of a young republic, written in Jefferson’s own measured prose.
A primary source for anyone studying the early republic and the presidency as Jefferson understood it. Download the free EPUB.