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The Road To Monticello
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Author : Kevin J. Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
The Road To Monticello written by Kevin J. Hayes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with History categories.
Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by offering a lively account of Jefferson's spiritual and intellectual development, focusing on the books and ideas that exerted the most profound influence on him. Moving chronologically through Jefferson's life, Hayes reveals the full range and depth of Jefferson's literary passions, from the popular "small books" sold by traveling chapmen, such as The History of Tom Thumb, which enthralled him as a child; to his lifelong love of Aesop's Fables and Robinson Crusoe; his engagement with Horace, Ovid, Virgil and other writers of classical antiquity; and his deep affinity with the melancholy verse of Ossian, the legendary third-century Gaelic warrior-poet. Drawing on Jefferson's letters, journals, and commonplace books, Hayes offers a wealth of new scholarship on the print culture of colonial America, reveals an intimate portrait of Jefferson's activities beyond the political chamber, and reconstructs the president's investigations in such different fields of knowledge as law, history, philosophy and natural science. Most importantly, Hayes uncovers the ideas and exchanges which informed the thinking of America's first great intellectual and shows how his lifelong pursuit of knowledge culminated in the formation of a public offering, the "academic village" which became UVA, and his more private retreat at Monticello. Gracefully written and painstakingly researched, The Road to Monticello provides an invaluable look at Jefferson's intellectual and literary life, uncovering the roots of some of the most important--and influential--ideas that have informed American history.
The Road From Monticello
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Author : Joseph C. Robert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Includes exercises.
The Road From Monticello A Study Of The Virginia Slavery Debate Of 1832
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Author : Joseph Clarke ROBERT
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Road From Monticello A Study Of The Virginia Slavery Debate Of 1832 written by Joseph Clarke ROBERT and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
The Road From Monticello
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Author : Joseph Clarke Robert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
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This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
My Monticello
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Author : Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2021-10-05
My Monticello written by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Fiction categories.
“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle "...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer with an unflinching view of history and what may come of it." — The Washington Post Winner of the Weatherford Award in Fiction A winner of 2022 Lillian Smith Book Awards A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da’Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson’s historic plantation home in a desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation. In “Control Negro,” hailed by Roxane Gay as “one hell of story,” a university professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from birth in order to “painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.” Johnson’s characters all seek out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through “Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.” United by these characters’ relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a formidable book that bears witness to this country’s legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction.
Monticello
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Author : Thomas Jefferson Foundation
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016
Monticello written by Thomas Jefferson Foundation and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Architecture categories.
For the first time, Monticello has an official guidebook that reflects the unique statesman and inventor Thomas Jefferson, his home, and his world. Showcasing the recent restoration of the home and plantation, it features information about the slaves of Mulberry Row, as well as the state-of-the-art visitor and education center. Each of the guide's 144 pages is designed to showcase the topics in its five chapters: Thomas Jefferson, Before Your Visit, The House, The Plantation, and the Neighborhood. Photographs, art and cutaways, and maps accompany featured stories both iconic and little-known from Monticello's curators.
Jefferson S Secrets
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Author : Andrew Burstein
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2006-03-21
Jefferson S Secrets written by Andrew Burstein and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-21 with History categories.
Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, leaving behind a series of mysteries that captured the imaginations of historical investigators-an interest rekindled by the recent revelation that he fathered a child by Sally Hemmings, a woman he legally owned-yet there is still surprisingly little known about him as a man. In Jefferson's Secrets Andrew Burstein focuses on Jefferson's last days to create an emotionally powerful portrait of the uncensored private citizen who was also a giant of a man. Drawing on sources previous biographers have glossed over or missed entirely, Burstein uncovers, first and foremost, how Jefferson confronted his own mortality; and in doing so, he reveals how he viewed his sexual choices. Delving into Jefferson's soul, Burstein lays bare the president's thoughts about his own legacy, his predictions for American democracy, and his feelings regarding women and religion. The result is a moving and surprising work of history that sets a new standard, post-DNA, for the next generation's reassessment of the most evocative and provocative of this country's founders.
The Hemingses Of Monticello An American Family
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Author : Annette Gordon-Reed
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-09-08
The Hemingses Of Monticello An American Family written by Annette Gordon-Reed and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-08 with History categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller #1 on Esquire's List of the 50 Best Biographies of All Time "[A] commanding and important book." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Jefferson’s death in 1826.
Journal
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Author : Washington Territory. Legislative Assembly. Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
Journal written by Washington Territory. Legislative Assembly. Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with categories.
Journal Of The Proceedings Of The Council Of Washington Territory During The Regular Session
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Author : Washington (State). Legislative Assembly. Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
Journal Of The Proceedings Of The Council Of Washington Territory During The Regular Session written by Washington (State). Legislative Assembly. Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with categories.