Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Thomas Jefferson, Noam Chomsky, Mortimer J. Adler, Robert Nozick, Henry David Thoreau, John Rawls, Murray Rothbard, Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Murray Bookchin, Henry George, Cornel West, Richard M. Weaver, Ronald Dworkin, Russell Kirk, Francis Parker Yockey, John William Miller, Francis Lieber, Michael Sandel, Isabel Paterson, Ernest Fortin, Michael Novak, T. M. Scanlon, Michael Hardt, Tara Smith, Hakim Bey, Joel Feinberg, Leonard Read, John Hospers, W. D. Wright, James Smoot Coleman, Silvia Federici, Vernard Eller, George Caffentzis, Iris Marion Young, Mera J. Flaumenhaft, John Brown Smith, Frank Meyer, Laurence Thomas, Joshua Cohen, Todd May, Janet Biehl, Loren Lomasky, Alastair Norcross, Gopal Balakrishnan, David Kolb, Michael Otsuka, Randall Gregory Holcombe. Excerpt: Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801-1809). He was an influential Founding Father, and an exponent of Jeffersonian democracy. Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism. At the beginning of the American Revolution, Jefferson served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia. He then served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779-1781), barely escaping capture by the British in 1781. Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris, initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. He was the first United States Secretary of State (1790-1793). During the administration of President George Washington, Jefferson advised against a national bank and the Jay Treaty. Upon leaving office, with his close friend James Madison he organized the Dem...