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"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state." —Publishers Weekly George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young protegé, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours later, when help arrived, Wythe was quick to tell anyone who would listen, "I am murdered." Over the next two weeks, as Wythe suffered a long and painful death, insults would be added to his mortal injury. I Am Murdered tells the bizarre true story of Wythe's death and the subsequent trial of his grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney, for the crime—unquestionably the most sensational and talked-about court case of the era. Hinging on hit-and-miss forensics, the unreliability of medical autopsies, the prevalence of poisoning, race relations, slavery, and the law, Sweeney's trial serves as a window into early nineteenth-century America. Its particular focus is on Richmond, part elegant state capital and part chaotic boomtown riddled with vice, opportunism, and crime. As Wythe lay dying, his doctors insisted that he had not been poisoned, and Sweeney had the nerve to beg him for bail money. In I Am Murdered, this signer of the Declaration of Independence, mentor to Thomas Jefferson, and "Father of American Jurisprudence" finally gets the justice he deserved.
This novel takes place from 1801 to 2057, and is written in the format of an alternative history. Following the murder of America's third President, by the son of one of his slave mistresses; there is no Louisiana Purchase; no United States of America West of the Mississippi River; and no American Civil War. But, there is a vigilante group called the White Sons of Virginia that chases the run-a-way slave and his descendants into the Twenty First Century when the story come to a thrilling climax during a Texas Hurricane in October, 2057 in the Gulf of México.
This novel takes place from 1801 to 2057, and is written in the format of an alternative history. Following the murder of America's third President , by the son of one of his slave mistresses; there is no Louisiana Purchase; no United States of America West of the Mississippi River; and no American Civil War. But, there is a vigilante group called the White Sons of Virginia that chases the run-a-way slave and his descendants into the Twenty First Century when the story come to a thrilling climax during a Texas Hurricane in October, 2057 in the Gulf of México.
Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, leaving behind a series of mysteries that captured the imaginations of historical investigators-an interest rekindled by the recent revelation that he fathered a child by Sally Hemmings, a woman he legally owned-yet there is still surprisingly little known about him as a man. In Jefferson's Secrets Andrew Burstein focuses on Jefferson's last days to create an emotionally powerful portrait of the uncensored private citizen who was also a giant of a man. Drawing on sources previous biographers have glossed over or missed entirely, Burstein uncovers, first and foremost, how Jefferson confronted his own mortality; and in doing so, he reveals how he viewed his sexual choices. Delving into Jefferson's soul, Burstein lays bare the president's thoughts about his own legacy, his predictions for American democracy, and his feelings regarding women and religion. The result is a moving and surprising work of history that sets a new standard, post-DNA, for the next generation's reassessment of the most evocative and provocative of this country's founders.
Thomas Jefferson: A Character Sketch is a compilation of several essays and anecdotes about the life of this unusual man. It begins with two essays covering his life from birth to death. The two span the first fifty pages of the book and are are well written, though penned by different authors. Also included is a significant speech by Daniel Webster given four weeks after Jefferson's death. (Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4th, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) The rest of the pages are filled with anecdotes and short stories from the life of Jefferson.
"A balanced, readable portrait. A refreshing perspective.” —New York Times Book Review With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, bestselling author Christopher Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure in American history and his turbulent era. In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father—a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings; the enemy of government power who exercisdd it audaciously as president; the visionarty who remained curiously blind to the inconsistencies in his nature. American Sphinx is a marvel of scholarship, a delight to read, and an essential gloss on the Jeffersonian legacy.
Thomas Jefferson and the Art of Inheritance by Judah Ryan Cooper Pdf
Was Thomas Jefferson a cold-blooded serial killer, or was he simply one of the luckiest heirs in the history of America? The evidence in this book comes primarily from Jefferson''s own correspondences, or letters written to him by his contemporaries. Twenty-one individuals, living along the path of Jefferson''s chronological itinerary, died mysteriously from what doctors described as an "unknown illness." In every case, Jefferson benefited from that person''s death. In many instances he inherited property in the form of land, slaves, or books. In other instances, his legacy, which was being threatened by that person''s existence, was rescued by that person''s demise. All twenty-one deaths occurred in five very distinct, recognizable clusters. If the twenty-one deaths were, indeed, murders, it is the fifth and final cluster, consisting of four deaths, which presents us with a potential methodology. It involved four individuals whose continued existence threatened to destroy the legacy that Jefferson had worked a lifetime to create. One was a co-conspirator in the Aaron Burr plot to overthrow the current government of the United States. Another was the newspaper editor that was perpetuating the rumor that Jefferson had fathered a child with one of his fifteen-year-old slaves. It was the other two deaths, within that final cluster, which presents us with the possibility that all twenty-one "unknown illnesses" were caused by the intentional administration of arsenic poison. The two victims in this double murder case were the eighty-year-old George Wythe, Jefferson''s famous mentor from forty years earlier, and a sixteen-year-old teenager that was Wythe''s most recent prot�g�, named Michael Brown. It was believed that Wythe''s grand-nephew, George Wythe Sweeney, had intentionally administered arsenic poison to the pair. Sweeney had become the primary suspect because he was a beneficiary of Wythe''s considerable estate. After a short trial, and a twenty minute deliberation of the jury, Sweeney was found not guilty. Technically, that means that the case is still unsolved. And, since both Broadnax and Jefferson were also heirs to the Wythe estate, they earn the top spots as potential suspects. Are there good reasons to suspect Broadnax, Jefferson, or both, of poisoning Wythe and Brown? Broadnax cooked the meal, and brewed the coffee, which Wythe and Brown consumed that fateful morning. Sweeney, who would also, normally, share in that breakfast ritual, left early that morning. If Sweeney had died, along with Wythe and Brown, and Wythe had not lived long enough to adjust his will, then Lydia Broadnax would have become a very wealthy woman. As for Jefferson, this intriguing case had the potential to satisfy two motives that might have caused Jefferson to turn to the "inheritor''s powder" solution. Jefferson had a very unhealthy addiction to book collecting. As this investigative study will clearly show, that addiction was not yet sated by either the inheritance of his father''s incredible library, or the inheritance of his father-in-law''s even more tremendous library. Jefferson, in 1806, was heir to Wythe''s extraordinary law library. Could this continual inheritance of library collections, ending with Wyhe''s, be coincidental? It is certainly possible. Jefferson, however, had an even greater motive for wanting Wythe and Brown to die in the same instance. There was a second decree, stipulated within Wythe''s last will and testament, which doomed the pair. Wythe had left the mentorship of Brown to President Jefferson. James T. Callender had told the world that the first-born son of Thomas Jefferson was named Tom, and that he was between ten and twelve years old. "Tom" would have been sixteen by 1806. Michael Brown was a mulatto, and he was sixteen when he died in 1806. Jefferson''s legacy would have been doomed if Brown had outlived Wythe.
The Complete Works of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson Pdf
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had been elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. He was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights motivating American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level. Contents: Autobiography Letters Written Before His Mission to Europe— (1773-1783) Letters Written While in Europe— (1784-1790) Letters Written After His Return to the United States Down to the Time of His Death — (1790-1826) Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State Inaugural Addresses and Messages Replies to Public Addresses Indian Addresses Notes on Virginia Biographical Sketch of Peyton Randolph Biographical Sketch of Meriwether Lewis Biographical Sketch of General Kosciusko Anecdotes of Dr. Franklin The Batture at New Orleans Parliamentary Manual The Anas Miscellaneous Papers
Author : Robert M. S. McDonald Publisher : University of Virginia Press Page : 500 pages File Size : 48,5 Mb Release : 2019-08-27 Category : History ISBN : 9780813942926
Thomas Jefferson's Lives by Robert M. S. McDonald Pdf
Who was the "real" Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an answer, it will probably not be revealed reading the many accounts of his life. For two centuries biographers have provided divergent perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his accomplishments. Jefferson was controversial in his own time, and his propensity to polarize continued in the years after his death as biographers battled to control the commanding heights of history. To judge from their depictions, there existed many different Thomas Jeffersons. The essays in this book explore how individual biographers have shaped history—as well as how the interests and preoccupations of the times in which they wrote helped to shape their portrayals of Jefferson. In different eras biographers presented the third president variously as a proponent of individual rights or of majority rule, as a unifier or a fierce partisan, and as a champion of either American nationalism or cosmopolitanism. Conscripted to serve Whigs and Democrats, abolitionists and slaveholders, unionists and secessionists, Populists and Progressives, and seemingly every side of almost every subsequent struggle, the only constant was that Jefferson’s image remained a mirror of Americans’ self-conscious conceptions of their nation’s virtues, values, and vices. Thomas Jefferson’s Lives brings together leading scholars of Jefferson and his era, all of whom embrace the challenge to assess some of the most important and enduring accounts of Jefferson’s life. Contributors:Jon Meacham, presidential historian * Barbara Oberg, Princeton University * J. Jefferson Looney, Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello * Christine Coalwell McDonald, Westchester Community College * Robert M.S. McDonald, United States Military Academy * Andrew Burstein, Louisiana State University * Jan Ellen Lewis, Rutgers University * Richard Samuelson, California State University, San Bernardino * Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University * Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University * Brian Steele, University of Alabama at Birmingham * Herbert Sloan, Barnard College * R. B. Bernstein, City College of New York * Francis D. Cogliano, University of Edinburgh * Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University
The Jefferson Conspiracies by David Leon Chandler Pdf
Now - nearly two hundred years later - Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Leon Chandler exposes the truth behind this death in The Jefferson Conspiracies.
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he'd vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson's grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call "a vile commerce." Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?
Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, leaving behind a series of mysteries that captured the imaginations of historical investigators. In this moving and intimate look at the final days of our most enigmatic president, Andrew Burstein sheds new light on what Thomas Jefferson actually thought about sexuality, race, gender, and politics.
Culinary secrets revealed by the Father of Fine Dining in America! Here's a remarkable collection of delightful handwritten recipes - you'll love Jefferson's personal comments in this 120-page book! Little known facts revealed in Thomas Jefferson's personal cookbook. This was the cookbook that Jefferson carefully wrote in his own hand and brought back to the US after his four years in Paris. His little granddaughter, Virginia Randolph, carefully copied these recipes as well as additional ones from various cooks at Monticello and the White House!
