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
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- 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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