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- Jefferson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Writers in Their Own Time
summary
In this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man, quite unlike the solemn statesman so often limned in biographies.
To friends and enemies alike he was the model of a republican gentleman, profoundly knowledgeable in philosophy and natural history, able to converse in several languages, and capable of great wit but contemptuous of ceremony and fancy dress. Through these excerpts, we can see the nation’s third president as his family knew him—a loving husband, father, and grandfather—and as his peers did, as a tireless public servant with a fondness for tall tales.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xxxiv
- Chronology
- pp. xxxv-xli
- Large Stories (1804–1809)
- pp. 36-41
- The Sage of Monticello (1809)
- pp. 62-66
- Interview with Mr. Jefferson (1812)
- pp. 67-71
- Man of the Mountain (1815)
- pp. 77-82
- Monticello (1818)
- pp. 83-87
- A Philosophical Legislator (1824)
- pp. 88-91
- Recollections of President Jefferson (1828)
- pp. 107-115
- Fond Memories from a Granddaughter (1839)
- pp. 120-122
- Of Art and Religion (1841)
- pp. 123-127
- The Last Days of Thomas Jefferson (1852)
- pp. 144-150
- Daily Life at Monticello (1862)
- pp. 169-179
- Thomas Jefferson (1868)
- pp. 180-183
- Jefferson and the Boy Professor (1875)
- pp. 184-186
- “Once the Slave of Thomas Jefferson” (1898)
- pp. 187-194
- Permissions
- pp. 195-196
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 197-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609381387
Related ISBN(s)
9781609381202
MARC Record
OCLC
811406150
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-10-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012