Twilight at Monticello : the final years of Thomas Jefferson / Alan Pell Crawford.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400060795
- ISBN: 1400060796
- Physical Description: xxviii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
- 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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Monticello (Va.) > History > 19th century.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 973.46 CRA (Text) | 36015000670642 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | 973.46092 CRA (Text) | 40599000716079 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| BHM Headquarters Library | 973.4 (Text) | 38344101253340 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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