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Table of Contents Prologue ¿I Shall Be For Ever At Ease¿ 1 Part One Chapter 1 A Society of Would-Be Country Squires 22 Chapter 2 An Upcountry Prince 29 Chapter 3 The Education of a Philosopher 37 Chapter 4 The Young Revolutionary 42 Chapter 5 The Crucible of Revolution 46 Chapter 6 ¿Whence He Might Contemplate the Whole Universe¿ 52 Chapter 7 ¿The Hated Occupation of Politics¿ 54 Chapter 8 The Revolutionary Takes Command 66 Chapter 9 ¿In a State of Almost Total Incapacity¿ 76 Part Two Chapter 10 ¿A Prisoner Released from His Chains¿ 94 Chapter 11 ¿Elevated Above the Mass of Mankind¿ 105 Chapter 12 A Place for the Grandchildren 115 Chapter 13 ¿The Shock of an Earthquake¿ 128 Chapter 14 Old Friends Reunited 136 Chapter 15 At War Again 148 Chapter 16 ¿This Enterprise is for the Young¿ 158 Chapter 17 ¿When I Reflect That God Is Just¿ 169 Chapter 18 A Library for the American Statesman 177 Chapter 19 Jeff Randolph Takes a Wife 181 Chapter 20 The Realm of ¿Sobriety and Cool Reason¿ 186 Chapter 21 ¿To Witness the Death of All Our Companions¿ 194 Chapter 22 The Preservation of the Republic 202 Chapter 23 The Indulgent Patriarch 212 Chapter 24 The ¿Yellow Children¿ on the Mountaintop 220 Chapter 25 ¿Something Very Great and Very New¿ 236 Chapter 26 Struggling ¿All our Lives with Debt & Difficulty¿ 246 Chapter 27 Blood in the Streets of Charlottesville 256 Chapter 28 Fire, Sickness, Drought, and Storm 266 Chapter 29 A Philosophe¿s Faith 283 Chapter 30 The University Embroiled in Controversy 296 Chapter 31 The Death-Knell of the Union The 302 Chapter 32 The ¿Hideous Evil¿ of Slavery 306 Chapter 33 ¿Ah, Jefferson!¿ ¿Ah, Lafayette!¿ 312 Chapter 34 ¿More than Patience Could Endure¿ 322 Chapter 35 ¿Take Care of Me When Dead¿¿ 329 Chapter 36 ¿An Inspiration from the Realms of Bliss¿ 344 Chapter 37 ¿I Have Given My Life to My Country¿ 349 Chapter 38 ¿Is it the Fourth?¿ 361 Epilogue 380 Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Monticello (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Presidents -- Retirement -- United States -- Case studies.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates.
Albemarle County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History -- 19th century.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Ex-Presidents -- United States -- Biography.