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HYLAND the soldier and author crafted his own furnishings, including a bed and armchair sewn of leather, silver candlesticks and a Greek inscription above the doorway which reads "Why worry?" from a story by Herodotus. A diminutive upstairs room, sky-lit, was designed for writing, reading and listening to music, furnished with bookshelves, typewriter and gramophone. Perhaps this cottage would remind Jefferson of the first pavilion which served as his diminutive domicile at Mount Vernon, now a modest outbuilding, mirrored by another on either side of Jefferson's imposing residence, the whole forming a Palladian ideal. Jefferson would understand that great thinking, like great art, great craftsmanship and great architecture, begins modestly. We see Monticello in its finished state, forgetful of the decades it took to realize its completion. From Nancy's choices, a theme emerges that confirms the balance in Jefferson's life and work between authorship, leadership and architecture. The President's remarkable and beautiful life, well designed, would be further enriched by Nancy Bass Wyden's insightful selection of seminal books: the inspired foundation of a twenty-first century Jefferson library. The Strand Bookstore curates book collections for discerning bibliophiles, with both specific and broad interests in mind. 1. A Clearing in the Distance, Witold Rybczysnki 684865750 Touchstone Simon & Schuster 2. A eory of Justice, John Rawls 674000781 e Belknap Press of Harvard Universtity Press Nancy's Choices for Jefferson's Latter-day Library