Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a BuilderHenry Holt and Company, 2011年4月1日 - 289 頁 A National Book Award nominee in 1988, Jack McLaughlin's biography tells the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. |
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... Virginia, secretary of state, Vice President, and President are only glanced at obliquely. To use an old-fashioned term, it is a domestic life. It attempts to capture a personal and private Jefferson, to detail his relationships with ...
... Virginia plantation of the Madisons, James and Dolley, at 10:30 in the morning, early enough on a midSeptember day in 1802 to make the twenty-eight-mile journey to the home of President Jefferson before nightfall. So slow and tortuous ...
... Virginia. Accommodations on the road were poor or nonexistent, and travelers often proceeded from house to house, stopping with family, friends, or mere acquaintances. The visitors were no doubt offered a late dinner; Jefferson had ...
... Virginia did people inhabit an unfinished house “till it is falling around their ears.” Obviously, this was not the way it was done in England. Even Jefferson himself had admitted earlier, in 1796, when he first began rebuilding ...
... Virginia, where there was a shortage of skilled tradesmen, it was often impossible. To paint deteriorated woodwork, for example, would have meant bringing a painter to Monticello, arranging for his housing and board, and then letting ...
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Today My Workmen Assemble | |
To Possess Living Souls | |
Moved to Monticello | |
The Mistress of Monticello | |
The Sublimated Philosopher in Paris | |
O Welcome Hour Whenever | |
A Single Example of Chaste Architecture | |
The Guardian Spirit of the Place | |
Afterword | |
AJefferson Chronology | |
Picture Credits | |