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Thomas Jefferson on Wine
InThomas Jefferson on Wine, John Hailman celebrates a founding father's lifelong interest in wine and provides unprecedented insight into Jefferson's character from this unique perspective. In both his personal and public lives, Jefferson wielded his considerable expertise to influence the drinking habits of his friends, other founding fathers, and the American public away from hard liquor toward the healthier pleasures of wine.
An international wine judge and nationally syndicated wine columnist, Hailman discusses how Jefferson's tastes developed, which wines and foods he preferred at different stages of his life, and how Jefferson became the greatest wine expert of the early American republic. Hailman explores the third president's fascination with scores of wines from his student days at Williamsburg to his lengthy retirement years at Monticello, often using Jefferson's own words from hundreds of immensely readable and surprisingly modern letters on the subject. A new epilogue covers the ongoing saga of the alleged wine swindle involving bottles of Bordeaux purported to belong to Jefferson.
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\Most blessed of the patriarchs\ : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
Presents a history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race.
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The papers of Thomas Jefferson, retirement series, volume 8
Volume Eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815. Jefferson is overjoyed by American victories late in the War of 1812 and highly interested in the treaty negotiations that ultimately end the conflict. Following Congress's decision to purchase his library, he oversees the counting, packing, and transportation of his books to Washington. Jefferson uses most of the funds from the sale to pay old debts but spends some of the proceeds on new titles. He resigns from the presidency of the American Philosophical Society, revises draft chapters of Louis H. Girardin's history of Virginia, and advises William Wirt on revolutionary-era Stamp Act resolutions. Jefferson criticizes those who discuss politics from the pulpit, and he drafts a bill to transform the Albemarle Academy into Central College. Monticello visitors Francis W. Gilmer, Francis C. Gray, and George Ticknor describe the mountaintop and its inhabitants, and Gray's visit leads to an exchange with Jefferson about how many generations of white interbreeding it takes to clear Negro blood. Finally, although death takes his nephew Peter Carr and brother Randolph Jefferson, the marriage of his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph is a continuing source of great happiness.
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The cavernous mind of Thomas Jefferson, an American savant
While every biographer has something to say concerning Thomas Jefferson's cavernous mind - his varied interests and the depth of his understanding of them - there has never been, strange as it might seem, a non-anthology dedicated to fleshing out key features of his mind, exploring Jefferson's varied interests through his varied personae. This book does just that, studying Jefferson as lawyer, moralist, politician, scientist, epistolist, aesthetician, farmer, educationalist, and philologist.
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 19
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of
Thomas Jefferson This volume's 601 documents show
Jefferson dealing with various challenges. He is injured in a fall
at Monticello, and his arm is still in a sling months later when he
narrowly escapes drowning during a solitary horseback ride.
Jefferson obtains temporary financial relief by transferring a
$20,000 debt from the Bank of the United States to the College of
William and Mary. Aided by a review of expenditures by the
University of Virginia that uncovers no serious discrepancies,
Jefferson and the Board of Visitors obtain a further $60,000 loan
that permits construction to begin on the Rotunda. Jefferson drafts
but apparently does not send John Adams a revealing letter on
religion. He exchanges long letters discussing the Supreme Court
with Justice William Johnson, and he writes to friends about
France's 1823 invasion of Spain. Jefferson also helps prepare a
list of recommended books for the Albemarle Library Society. In
November 1822, Jefferson's grandson Francis Eppes marries Mary
Elizabeth Randolph. He gives the newlyweds his mansion at Poplar
Forest and visits it for the last time the following May. In a
letter to James Monroe, Jefferson writes and then cancels \"my race
is near it's term, and not nearer, I assure you, than I wish.\"
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Thomas Jefferson grows a nation
Examines the life and career of Thomas Jefferson, who in addition to his acccomplishments as a politician and president was also talented in the field of agriculture.
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 18
A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of
Thomas Jefferson This volume's 627 documents feature a
vast assortment of topics. Jefferson writes of his dread of \"a
doting old age.\" He inserts an anonymous note in the Richmond
Enquirer denying that he has endorsed a candidate for the next
presidential election, and he publishes two letters in that
newspaper under his own name to refute a Federalist claim that he
once benefited by overcharging the United States Treasury.
Jefferson does not reply to unsolicited letters seeking his opinion
on constitutional matters, judicial review, and a call for
universal white male suffrage in Virginia. Fearing that it would
set a dangerous precedent, he declines appointment as patron of a
new society \"for the civilisation of the Indians.\" Jefferson is
also asked to comment on proposed improvements to stoves,
lighthouses, telescopes, and navigable balloons. Citing his
advanced age and stiffened wrist, he avoids detailed replies and
allows his complaint to John Adams about the volume of incoming
correspondence to be leaked to the press in hopes that strangers
will stop deluging them both with letters. Jefferson approves of
the growth of Unitarianism and predicts that \"there is not a young
man now living in the US. who will not die an Unitarian.\"
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The Adams-Jefferson Letters
An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America,
the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned
half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion,
quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates
to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence
in 1777, negotiated jointly as ministers in Europe in the 1780s,
and served the early Republic--each, ultimately, in its highest
office. At Jefferson's defeat of Adams for the presidency in 1800,
they became estranged, and the correspondence lapses from 1801 to
1812, then is renewed until the death of both in 1826, fifty years
to the day after the Declaration of Independence.
Lester J. Cappon's edition, first published in 1959 in two
volumes, provides the complete correspondence between these two men
and includes the correspondence between Abigail Adams and
Jefferson. Many of these letters have been published in no other
modern edition, nor does any other edition devote itself
exclusively to the exchange between Jefferson and the Adamses.
Introduction, headnotes, and footnotes inform the reader without
interrupting the speakers. This reissue of The Adams-Jefferson
Letters in a one-volume unabridged edition brings to a broader
audience one of the monuments of American scholarship and, to quote
C. Vann Woodward, 'a major treasure of national literature.'
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