"Peter Onuf's Jefferson and the Virginians examines the ways that Jefferson and his fellow Virginians, George Washington, James Madison, and Patrick Henry, conceptualized their home state from a political and cultural perspective and understood its place and influence on the new nation"--

Peter S. Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Senior Research Fellow at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello). He is the author of numerous books on Thomas Jefferson, including The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.