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Thomas Jefferson : an intimate history / Fawn M. Brodie

Author
Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-1981
Published
New York : Norton, [1974]
Copyright Date
©1974
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Description
591 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

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Contents
The semi-transparent shadows -- The parents -- A sense of family -- A capacity for involvement -- A problem with the forbidden -- Martha Jefferson -- The revolutionary -- Jefferson and independence -- the domestic problem -- The flight from power -- Jefferson and the war -- Jefferson writes a book -- The two Marthas -- The return to politics -- Restlessness and torment -- My head and my heart -- The second interlude -- Sally Hemings -- The revolutionary goes home -- The satellite sons -- Disillusionment in Eden -- Triangles at Monticello -- Candidate à Contre Coeur -- Callender -- Jason -- Betrayal -- Jefferson under attack -- Death, hatred, and the uses of silence -- Jefferson and Burr -- A genius for peace -- Like a patriarch of old -- Writer of letters -- The Monticello tragedy -- Appendix I. Reminiscences of Madison Hemings ; Reminiscences of Israel Jefferson -- Appendix II. "My head and my heart" -- Appendix III. The family denial.
Summary
Explores the relationship between Jefferson's inner life and his public life including his attitudes toward the church, slavery, women, and revolution.
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ISBN
0393074803
Collection
Charles L. Blockson Collection of African Americana and the African Diaspora.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-565) and index.
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