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Twilight at Monticello : the final years of Thomas Jefferson / Alan Pell Crawford.

Crawford, Alan Pell. (Author).

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A portrait of Thomas Jefferson's retirement years at Monticello captures a turbulent period in the former president's life marked by personal and financial problems, depression, the disintegration of his family, and the founding of the University of Virginia.

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  • ISBN: 9781400060795
  • ISBN: 1400060796
  • Physical Description: xxviii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2008]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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?"

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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.
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.
Monticello (Va.) > History > 19th century.
Albemarle County (Va.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
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