The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Viking Portable Library)

Year 1977
Pages 589
Binding Paperback

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This edition of The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Viking Portable Library) by Merrill D. Peterson & Thomas Jefferson is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 1977 • Penguin USA • 589 pages.

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