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Alan Pell CrawfordPublication Details
Book1st edRandom House2008Availability
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Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama?one of the greatest?played out in compelling acts. But Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about this true American icon. Based on new research and documents culled from the Library of Congress, the Virginia Historical Society, and other special collections, including hitherto unexamined letters from family, friends, and Monticello neighbors, Alan Pell Crawford paints an authoritative and deeply moving portrait of Thomas Jefferson as private citizen?the first original depiction of the man in more than a generation. Newly studying primary sources, Crawford thoroughly conveys the pathos of Jefferson’s last years, even as he successfully established the University of Virginia (America’s first wholly secular university) and maintained contact with James Madison, John Adams, and other luminaries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- 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
- Albemarle County (Va.) — Social life and customs — 19th century
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- 9781400060795
- 1400060796
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