Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Jefferson's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Jefferson and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having owned this work by Adam Smith.
Evidence ledger
- Sowerby's catalogue documents that Jefferson's library included Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
Concepts moved from this book
- Absorbed -> Political economy