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I am murdered : George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the killing that shocked a new nation / Bruce Chadwick

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Chadwick, Bruce
Published
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents
"I am murdered"? -- The funeral -- Homicide: early investigation, part I -- Williamsburg: George Wythe and Thomas Jefferson -- Jefferson and Wythe remake Virginia -- Richmond: boomtown and the decadent night life of George Wythe Sweeney -- The dying George Wythe changes his will -- Moving day: a second life in Richmond and the return of George Wythe -- The arrest -- The investigation, part II -- For the defense: William Wirt -- For the defense: Edmund Randolph -- Mourning at the executive mansion -- The forensics nightmare, part I: arsenic, the poison of choice -- The forensics nightmare, part II: the autopsy -- Lydia Broadnax, the eyewitness -- The black and white legal codes -- Washington: October, 1806.
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ISBN
9780470185513 (cloth)
0470185511 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-272) and index.
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