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Author:
Crawford, Alan Pell.
Title:
Twilight at Monticello: the final years of Thomas Jefferson.
Edition:
Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publisher:
Random House Trade Paperbacks,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
xxvi, 322 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Homes and haunts--Albemarle County.--Albemarle County.
Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826.
Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Family.
Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Friends and associates.
Presidents--Retirement--United States--Case studies.
Plantation life--Albemarle County--Albemarle County--History--19th century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Ex-Presidents--United States--Biography.
Monticello (Va.)--History--19th century.
Albemarle County (Va.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A society of would-be country squires -- An upcountry prince -- The education of a philosopher -- The young revolutionary -- The crucible of revolution -- "Whence he might contemplate the whole universe" -- "The hated occupations of politics" -- The revolutionary takes command -- "In a state of almost total incapacity -- "A prisoner released from his chains" -- "Elevated above the mass of mankind" -- "When I expect to settle my grandchildren" -- "The shock of an earthquate" -- Old friends reunited -- At war again -- "This enterprise is for the young" -- "When I reflect that God is just" -- A library for "the American statesman" -- Jeff Randolph takes a wife -- The realm of "sobriety and cool reason" -- "To witness the death of all our companions" -- "The eternal preservation of-- republican principles" -- The indulgent patriarch -- The "yellow children" of the mountaintop -- "Something very great and very new" -- Struggling "all our lives with debt & difficulty" -- Blood in the streets of Charlottesville -- Fire, sickness, drought, and storm -- A philosophe's faith -- "We shall have every religious man in Virginia against us" -- The death knell of the Union -- The "hideous evil" of slavery -- "Ah, Jefferson!" "Ah, Lafayette!" -- "More than patience could endure" -- "Take care of me when dead-- " -- "An inspiration from the realms of bliss" -- "I have given my whole life to my country" -- "Is it the fourth?"
ISBN:
0812969464 (pbk.)
9780812969467 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)229027766
LCCN:
2009294304
Locations:
RAPD371 -- Jefferson Public Library (Jefferson)
GWPB501 -- Prairie City Public Library (Prairie City)

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