Jefferson in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / / edited by Kevin J. Hayes

• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.4/6092
• Soggetto topico: Founding Fathers of the United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States History 1783-1865 Sources
• Altri autori: HayesKevin J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chronology -- Francois Jean, Marquis de Chastellux, [A conversation always varied and interesting] -- Abigail Adams Smith, [A man of great sensibility and parental affection] (1784-1785) -- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, [A stock of information not inferior to that of any man] -- Samuel Harrison Smith, [Fourth of July at the president's mansion] (1801 and 1803) -- Samuel L. Mitchill, [Visiting the president's mansion] (1802-1803) -- John Quincy Adams, [Large stories] (1804-1809) -- Joseph Story, [The marks of intense thought and perseverance] -- Margaret Bayard Smith, [The habitation of philosophy and virtue] (1809 and 1837) -- John Edwards Caldwell, The sage of Monticello -- John Melish, Interview with Mr. Jefferson -- Philip Mazzei, [An Italian friend remembers Virginia and France] -- George Ticknor, [Man of the Mountain] -- Francis Hall, Monticello -- Adam Hodgson, [A philosophical legislator] -- Daniel Webster, Memorandum of Mr. Jefferson's conversations -- Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, [From the University of Virginia to Monticello] -- John Bernard, Recollections of President Jefferson -- Martha Jefferson Randolph, [A father's grief, a daughter's memories] -- Virginia J. Randolph Trist, [Fond memories from a grandaughter] -- John Trumbull, [Of art and religion] -- Augustus J. Foster, [A visionary who loved to dream eyes wide open] -- Daniel Pierce Thompson, [Talking with Jefferson: two accounts] (1841 and 1863) -- Francis T. Brooke, [A man of easy and ingratiating manners] -- Robley Dunglison, [The last days of Thomas Jefferson] -- Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, [What Jefferson was like as a grandfather] (ca. 1856) -- Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [The life and death of Thomas Jefferson] (ca. 1857) -- Edmund Bacon, [Daily life at Monticello] -- Henry Tutwiler, Thomas Jefferson -- George Long, [Jefferson and the boy professor].
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Jefferson in his own time
• ISBN: 1-60938-138-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816876703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)