Twilight at Monticello : the final years of Thomas Jefferson /

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Author / Creator:	Crawford, Alan Pell.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Random House, c2008.
Description:	xxviii, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia -- Albemarle County. Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826. Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Family. Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates. Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826. Monticello (Va.) -- History -- 19th century. Presidents -- Retirement -- United States -- Case studies. Plantation life -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History -- 19th century. Presidents -- United States -- Biography. Ex-presidents -- United States -- Biography. Ex-presidents. Families. Friendship. Homes. Manners and customs. Plantation life. Presidents. Albemarle County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. United States. Virginia -- Albemarle County. Virginia -- Monticello. Biography. Case studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6678291

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ISBN:	9781400060795 (alk. paper) 1400060796 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: "I Shall Be for Ever at Ease"
Part 1. Morning and Midday
Chapter 1. A Society of Would-be Country Squires
Chapter 2. An Upcountry Prince
Chapter 3. The Education of a Philosopher
Chapter 4. The Young Revolutionary
Chapter 5. The Crucible of Revolution
Chapter 6. Whence He Might Contemplate the Whole Universe
Chapter 7. The Hated Occupations of Politics
Chapter 8. The Revolutionary Takes Command
Chapter 9. In a State of Almost Total Incapacity
Part 2. Late Afternoon and Sunset
Chapter 10. A Prisoner Released from His Chains
Chapter 11. Elevated Above the Mass of Mankind
Chapter 12. When I Expect to Settle my Grandchildren
Chapter 13. The Shock of an Earthquake
Chapter 14. Old Friends Reunited
Chapter 15. At War Again
Chapter 16. This Enterprise Is for the Young
Chapter 17. When I Reflect That God Is Just
Chapter 18. A Library for "the American Statesman"
Chapter 19. Jeff Randolph Takes a Wife
Chapter 20. The Realm of "Sobriety and Cool Reason"
Chapter 21. To Witness the Death of All Our Companions
Chapter 22. The Eternal Preservation of... Republican Principles
Chapter 23. The Indulgent Patriarch
Chapter 24. The "Yellow Children" of the Mountaintop
Chapter 25. Something Very Great and Very New
Chapter 26. Struggling "All Our Lives with Debt & Difficulty"
Chapter 27. Blood in the Streets of Charlottesville
Chapter 28. Fire, Sickness, Drought, and Storm
Chapter 29. A Philosophe's Faith
Chapter 30. We Shall Have Every Religious Man in Virginia Against Us
Chapter 31. The Death Knell of the Union
Chapter 32. The "Hideous Evil" of Slavery
Chapter 33. "Ah, Jefferson!" "Ah, Lafayette!"
Chapter 34. More Than Patience Could Endure
Chapter 35. Take Care of Me When Dead...
Chapter 36. An Inspiration from the Realms of Bliss
Chapter 37. I Have Given My Whole Life to My Country
Chapter 38. Is It the Fourth?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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Twilight at Monticello : the final years of Thomas Jefferson /

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