Jefferson's White House

Monticello on the Potomac

AvJames B. Conroy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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As the first president to occupy the White House for an entire term, Thomas Jefferson shaped the president’s residence, literally and figuratively, more than any of its other occupants. Remarkably enough, however, though many books have immortalized Jefferson’s Monticello, none has been devoted to the vibrant look, feel, and energy of his still more famous and consequential home from 1801 to 1809. In Monticello on the Potomac, James B. Conroy, author of the award-winning Lincoln’s White House offers a vivid, highly readable account of how life was lived in Jefferson’s White House and the young nation’s rustic capital.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-23
Mått:162 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538108468

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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James Conroy is the author of Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 (Lyons Press, 2014) and Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime (R&L, 2016), co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lerhman Lincoln Prize and winner of the 2017 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize. He resides on Boston’s South Shore. Conroy speaks extensively and has been featured on C-Span Book TV.

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Those familiar with his previous book, Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime (2017), will welcome Conroy’s present foray into an earlier “civil war”—a war between the dominant Jeffersonian Republicans and the minority political party at the time, the Federalists.

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Prologue1. It Was More Than I Expected2. With Very Decent Respect3. True Republicanism4. Men of 17765. Notions of Equality6. Grumble Who Will7. Chiefly of the Sneering Kind8. A French Way of Cooking Them9. Unfinished Persons10. I Found It Detestable11. By No Means Dangerous12. This Will Be the Cause of War13. Madame Eve14. Highly Embellished With Indian Finery15. Oriental Luxury and Taste16. Age Has Some Effect Upon Him17. Chained to a Writing Table18. The Hermit of MonticelloEpilogueSelected BibliographyNotes