Jefferson in His Own Time : A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.
Title:
Jefferson in His Own Time : A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.
Author:
Hayes, Kevin J.
ISBN:
9781609381387
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series:
Writers in Their Own Time
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- [A Conversation Always Varied and Interesting] (1782 ) - François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux -- [A Man of Great Sensibility and Parental Affection] (1784-1785) - Abigail Adams Smith -- [A Stock of Information Not Inferior to That of Any Man] (1799) - François Alexandre Frédéric, Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt -- [Fourth of July at the President's Mansion] (1801 and 1803) - Samuel Harrison Smith -- [Visiting the President's Mansion] (1802-1803) - Samuel L. Mitchill -- [Large Stories] (1804-1809) - John Quincy Adams -- [The Marks of Intense Thought and Perseverance] (1807) - Joseph Story -- [The Habitation of Philosophy and Virtue] (1809 and 1837) - Margaret Bayard Smith -- The Sage of Monticello (1809) - John Edwards Caldwell -- Interview with Mr. Jefferson (1812) - John Melish -- [An Italian Friend Remembers Virginia and France] (1813) - Philip Mazzei -- [Man of the Mountain] (1815) - George Ticknor -- Monticello (1818) - Francis Hall -- [A Philosophical Legislator] (1824) - Adam Hodgson -- Memorandum of Mr. Jefferson's Conversations (1824) - Daniel Webster -- [From the University of Virginia to Monticello] (1828) - Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach -- Recollections of President Jefferson (1828) - John Bernard -- [A Father's Grief, A Daughter's Memories] (1832) - Martha Jefferson Randolph -- [Fond Memories from a Granddaughter] (1839) - Virginia J. Randolph Trist -- [Of Art and Religion] (1841) - John Trumbull -- [A Visionary Who Loved to Dream Eyes Wide Open] (1841) - Augustus J. Foster -- [Talking with Jefferson: Two Accounts] (1841 and 1863) - Daniel Pierce Thompson -- [A Man of Easy and Ingratiating Manners] (1849) - Francis T. Brooke -- [The Last Days of Thomas Jefferson] (1852) - Robley Dunglison -- [What Jefferson Was Like as a Grandfather, ca. 1856] - Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge.
[The Life and Death of Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1857] - Thomas Jefferson Randolph -- [Daily Life at Monticello] (1862) - Edmund Bacon -- Thomas Jefferson (1868) - Henry Tutwiler -- [Jefferson and the Boy Professor] (1875) - George Long -- "Once the Slave of Thomas Jefferson" (1898) - Peter F. Fossett -- Permissions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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