This volume offers, as its blurb asserts, "substantive discus-sions of the key issues facing Jeffersonian scholars." Begin-ning with Michael Zuckert's by now familiar argument thatJefferson's thought is best understood as resting in a Lockeannatural rights framework, other able scholars more or lesstake issue with this analysis by appealing both to Jefferson'sown writings and to the works of major interpreters of thepolitical thought of the founding era. The result is a seriousreconsideration of Jefferson's thought that takes up most ofthe key themes raised by Louis Hartz and Bernard Bailynforty or more years ago over the place of the liberal traditionin American thought. Veteran expositors of Jefferson'sthought in a more civic republican and Christian way, JeanYarbrough and Garrett Ward Sheldon, take issue with Zuck-ert's Lockean, natural rights emphasis, upholding instead theinfluences of Aristotelian, Kamesian, and Christian thoughton Jefferson. Though one cannot deny the strong Lockeanstrand in Jefferson's thought, Yarbrough and Sheldon arguepersuasively for the strong presence of the other dimensionsas well. Zuckert's effort in his "Response" to claim that thismixes without resolving conflicting philosophies, and thus, ifYarbrough and Sheldon are right, leaves Jefferson hopelesslyinconsistent, misses Jefferson's brilliant blending of theseoutlooks, all obviously present in his writings, into what mightbe called a Jeffersonian republicanism.