
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 23, 1994                   TAG: 9411230139
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: WISE                                LENGTH: Short

SCHOLAR'S BOOK WILL TAKE JEFFERSON TO RUSSIANS

A Clinch Valley College professor's book, ``The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson,'' will be translated into Russian and published in Moscow next year.

Garrett Sheldon's book was published in this country by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1991. It will be the first English-language book on Jefferson to be translated and published in Russia.

``I'm really excited and honored to have my book on Jefferson's political thought published there,'' Sheldon said.

It is not the book's first international exposure. The U.S. Information Agency published it in India a few years ago. In 1993, it was the text of the Jefferson Symposium at Oxford University in England.

Sheldon, who lives in Big Stone Gap, has taught at Clinch Valley for 12 years, since earning his doctorate from Rutgers University. He is professor of political science and chairman of the Department of Social Sciences.

by CNB