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Prologue "I Shall Be for Ever at Ease" xiii
Part 1 Morning and Midday
Chapter 1 A Society of Would-be Country Squires 3
Chapter 2 An Upcountry Prince 8
Chapter 3 The Education of a Philosopher 14
Chapter 4 The Young Revolutionary 17
Chapter 5 The Crucible of Revolution 20
Chapter 6 "Whence He Might Contemplate the Whole Universe" 24
Chapter 7 "The Hated Occupations of Politics" 26
Chapter 8 The Revolutionary Takes Command 33
Chapter 9 "In a State of Almost Total Incapacity" 41
Part 2 Late Afternoon and Sunset
Chapter 10 "A Prisoner Released from His Chains" 55
Chapter 11 "Elevated Above the Mass of Mankind" 63
Chapter 12 "When I Expect to Settle my Grandchildren" 70
Chapter 13 "The Shock of an Earthquake" 78
Chapter 14 Old Friends Reunited 83
Chapter 15 At War Again 91
Chapter 16 "This Enterprise Is for the Young" 98
Chapter 17 "When I Reflect That God Is Just" 105
Chapter 18 A Library for "the American Statesman" 110
Chapter 19 Jeff Randolph Takes a Wife 113
Chapter 20 The Realm of "Sobriety and Cool Reason" 117
Chapter 21 "To Witness the Death of All Our Companions" 123
Chapter 22 "The Eternal Preservation of Republican Principles" 128
Chapter 23 The Indulgent Patriarch 134
Chapter 24 The "Yellow Children" of the Mountaintop 139
Chapter 25 "Something Very Great and Very New" 150
Chapter 26 Struggling "All Our Lives with Debt & Difficulty" 157
Chapter 27 Blood in the Streets of Charlottesville 164
Chapter 28 Fire, Sickness, Drought, and Storm 170
Chapter 29 A Philosophe's Faith 182
Chapter 30 "We Shall Have Every Religious Man in Virginia Against Us" 190
Chapter 31 The Death Knell of the Union 194
Chapter 32 The "HideousEvil" of Slavery 197
Chapter 33 "Ah, Jefferson!" "Ah, Lafayette!" 201
Chapter 34 "More Than Patience Could Endure" 208
Chapter 35 "Take Care of Me When Dead " 213
Chapter 36 "An Inspiration from the Realms of Bliss" 223
Chapter 37 "I Have Given My Whole Life to My Country" 227
Chapter 38 "Is It the Fourth?" 234
Epilogue 247
Acknowledgments 265
Notes 267
Index 311
Illustration Credits 321
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David Baird
reviewed Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson on July 23, 2020
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Many have rated this higher and they simply have more patience than I do. I found it overly detailed, tedious. Yet Crawford is not afraid to go into Jefferson's deep flaws and the affair with Sally Hemings. While some biographers are hedging, he makes it clear that Jefferson is definitely the father of at least some of Sally's children. It was sad reading about her life as a slave-Jefferson was kind and while there may have been a romance, she was still his property. While Jefferson was a sensitive soul and had a profound moral sense he still (though he passionately believed it to be immoral) was not willing to free his slaves in his lifetime. Jefferson lived lavishly, could never control his finances and never curb his indulgences. His golden years were spent on the brink of ruin, being broke but living in a mansion. These were depression years and there were no pensions for presidents.
Still, he remains my favorite president. I do not take the current fashion of condemning those dark spots of our American history. Fully learning from it can only happen from listening to both sides--and all sides--of the equations.
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