Thomas Jefferson Sculpture main reading room With a bouncy read-aloud text

With a bouncy read-aloud text and gorgeous watercolor pictures

Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal

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Presidential ephemera can be found throughout the Library's collections

Thomas Jefferson Sculpture main reading room With a bouncy read-aloud textThomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (18011809). He sold his collection of books (almost 6500 volumes) to the government to form the nucleus of the Library of Congress before promptly beginning to purchase more volumes for his final library. Noting the irony, Jefferson famously told John Adams that I