Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty

711 Pages·2017·10.03 MB·English

by  John B. Boles

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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
A Note on Capitalization
Introduction
PART I: COLONIAL VIRGINIA, 1743–1770
1 “A Hard Student”
2 Young Legislator
PART II: REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, 1771–1784
3 “Inspire Us with Firmness”
4 “These Are Our Grievances”
5 “Pen of the American Revolution”
6 Revolutionary Lawmaker
7 The Fight for Independence
8 A Congress “Little Numerous, but Very Contentious”
PART III: PARIS, 1784–1790
9 “On the Vaunted Scene of Europe”
10 At Home in Paris
11 Tourist
12 “A Powerful Obstacle… to Emancipation”
13 “Liberty Is to Be Gained by Inches”
PART IV: PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK CITY, 1790–1801
14 From Paris to New York
15 Jefferson Versus Hamilton
16 The Specter of the French Revolution
17 “Totally Absorbed in My Rural Occupations”
18 The Vice Presidency
19 “Reign of Witches”
20 An Attempt to “Strangle the Election”
PART V: WASHINGTON, DC, 1801–1809
21 Political Faith and Presidential Style
22 “We Are Acting for All Mankind”
23 “Louisiana for a Song”
24 “Steadily in Her Course”
25 The Collapse of Political Consensus
26 “War, Embargo, or Nothing”
PART VI: MONTICELLO, 1809–1826
27 “Returning to the Scenes of My Birth and Early Life”
28 “We Ought Not to Die Before We Have Explained Ourselves”
29 Living with Paradox
30 One Last Crusade
31 The Sage of Monticello
Postscript
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by John B. Boles
List of Abbreviations in Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Notes
Index
For Parker, Bailey, Sonia, and Nicolas
“grandchildren… furnish me great resources of
happiness.”
—T J C T ,
HOMAS EFFERSON TO HARLES HOMSON
D 25, 1808
ECEMBER
Watercolor of west front of Monticello.
By Jane Pittman Braddick Peticolas, 1825.
Source: Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello. Used by permission.