Understanding Thomas JeffersonHarper Collins, 13.10.2009 - 304 Seiten Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character—famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation yet secret lover of a beautiful slave for 30 years, aristocrat yet fervent advocate of government by the people. E. M. Halliday's absorbing and lucid portrait recognizes these and other puzzles about this great founder, but shows us how understandable they can be in light of his personal and social circumstances. Halliday takes readers deep into Jefferson's private life—exploring his childhood, his literary taste, and his unconventional religious thinking and moral philosophy. Here, too, are his adamant opinions on women, the evolution of his ideas on democracy and freedom of expression, and fresh insights into his relationship with Sally Hemings. |
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... Martha, he summed up his reaction in a letter to an American friend after about a year had gone by: “The domestic bonds here are absolutely done away. And where can their compensation be found? Perhaps they [the French] may catch some ...
... Martha Jefferson had loved her faithful one.) About the same time, offering advice to a Virginia youth who was visiting France, Jefferson cautions that in Paris a young man is likely to be “led by the strongest of all the human passions ...
... Martha Jefferson's final illness in 1782, had lost a battle with whooping cough and had died in October 1784; Lafayette had made the Atlantic crossing much faster than the letter from the Jefferson family doctor confirming the appalling ...
... Martha. Then there were the weekends. His little boarding school was near Fredericksville, only a few miles from Shadwell, the family plantation, and in those familiar fields and woods he could hunt or fish, while in the big ...
... An eighteenth - century engraving showing the College of William and Mary more or less as it looked when Jefferson enrolled there in 1760 . A page from Martha Jefferson's household account book for 1772. 15 Surges of Youth.
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Unchequered Happiness | 29 |
4 | 56 |
5 | 62 |
Sunny Interlude | 70 |
End of an Affair | 81 |
8 | 97 |
On the Bridge of the Ship of State | 124 |
The Heart of the Matter | 180 |
14 | 211 |
15 | 220 |
16 | 240 |
11 | 251 |
Slave Masterand Racist | 260 |
Acknowledgments | 269 |
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