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Twilight at Monticello : the final years of Thomas Jefferson / Alan Pell Crawford.
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- Author/Creator:
- Crawford, Alan Pell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
- Monticello (Va.)--History--19th century.
- Monticello (Va.).
- Ex-presidents.
- Plantation life.
- History.
- Friends and associates.
- Families.
- Presidents.
- Retirement.
- Virginia--Monticello.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Homes and haunts--Virginia--Albemarle County.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Presidents--Retirement--United States--Case studies.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Family.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Friends and associates.
- Albemarle County (Va.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Albemarle County (Va.).
- Plantation life--Virginia--Albemarle County--History--19th century.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Virginia--Albemarle County.
- Ex-presidents--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2008]
- Contents:
- Prologue: "I Shall Be for Ever at Ease" xv
- Part 1 Morning and Midday
- Chapter 1 A Society of Would-be Country Squires 3
- Chapter 2 An Upcountry Prince 8
- Chapter 3 The Education of a Philosopher 14
- Chapter 4 The Young Revolutionary 17
- Chapter 5 The Crucible of Revolution 20
- Chapter 6 Whence He Might Contemplate the Whole Universe 24
- Chapter 7 The Hated Occupations of Politics 26
- Chapter 8 The Revolutionary Takes Command 33
- Chapter 9 In a State of Almost Total Incapacity 41
- Part 2 Late Afternoon and Sunset
- Chapter 10 A Prisoner Released from His Chains 55
- Chapter 11 Elevated Above the Mass of Mankind 63
- Chapter 12 When I Expect to Settle my Grandchildren 70
- Chapter 13 The Shock of an Earthquake 78
- Chapter 14 Old Friends Reunited 83
- Chapter 15 At War Again 91
- Chapter 16 This Enterprise Is for the Young 98
- Chapter 17 When I Reflect That God Is Just 105
- Chapter 18 A Library for "the American Statesman" 110
- Chapter 19 Jeff Randolph Takes a Wife 113
- Chapter 20 The Realm of "Sobriety and Cool Reason" 117
- Chapter 21 To Witness the Death of All Our Companions 123
- Chapter 22 The Eternal Preservation of... Republican Principles 128
- Chapter 23 The Indulgent Patriarch 134
- Chapter 24 The "Yellow Children" of the Mountaintop 139
- Chapter 25 Something Very Great and Very New 150
- Chapter 26 Struggling "All Our Lives with Debt & Difficulty" 157
- Chapter 27 Blood in the Streets of Charlottesville 164
- Chapter 28 Fire, Sickness, Drought, and Storm 170
- Chapter 29 A Philosophe's Faith 182
- Chapter 30 We Shall Have Every Religious Man in Virginia Against Us 190
- Chapter 31 The Death Knell of the Union 194
- Chapter 32 The "Hideous Evil" of Slavery 197
- Chapter 33 "Ah, Jefferson!" "Ah, Lafayette!" 201
- Chapter 34 More Than Patience Could Endure 208
- Chapter 35 Take Care of Me When Dead... 213
- Chapter 36 An Inspiration from the Realms of Bliss 223
- Chapter 37 I Have Given My Whole Life to My Country 227
- Chapter 38 Is It the Fourth? 234.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400060795
- 1400060796
- OCLC:
- 136777638
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