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Author Crawford, Alan Pell.

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

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  E332.74 .C73 2008    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxviii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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?"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Monticello (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
Virginia -- Monticello.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Virginia -- Albemarle County.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Presidents -- Retirement -- United States -- Case studies.
Presidents.
Retirement.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.
Families.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates.
Friends and associates.
Albemarle County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation life.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Ex-presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Ex-presidents.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781400060795 alkaline paper
1400060796 alkaline paper
Standard No. 40015015972