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This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. 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And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.\n\nIn The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by offering a lively account of Jefferson's spiritual and intellectual development, focusing on the books and ideas that exerted the most profound influence on him. Moving chronologically through Jefferson's life, Hayes reveals the full range and depth of Jefferson's literary passions, from the popular \"small books\" sold by traveling chapmen, such as The History of Tom Thumb, which enthralled him as a child; to his lifelong love of Aesop's Fables and Robinson Crusoe; his engagement with Horace, Ovid, Virgil and other writers of classical antiquity; and his deep affinity with the melancholy verse of Ossian, the legendary third-century Gaelic warrior-poet. 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Most importantly, Hayes uncovers the ideas and exchanges which informed the thinking of America's first great intellectual and shows how his lifelong pursuit of knowledge culminated in the formation of a public offering, the \"academic village\" which became UVA, and his more private retreat at Monticello.\n\nGracefully written and painstakingly researched, The Road to Monticello provides an invaluable look at Jefferson's intellectual and literary life, uncovering the roots of some of the most important--and influential--ideas that have informed American history., ISBN13: 9780195307580 ISBN10: 0195307585 Material Type: hardcover","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51245254869299,"sku":"FA_10-03-24_ART_301JSL","price":13.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/41N1r7ff0mL.jpg?v=1753609399"},{"product_id":"flight-from-monticello-thomas-jefferson-at-war","title":"Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War","description":"When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his presidency or that he was second governor of the state of Virginia, in the most trying hours of the Revolution. Dumas Malone, author of the epic six-volume biography, wrote that the events of this time explain Jefferson's \"character as a man of action in a serious emergency.\" Joseph Ellis, author of American Sphinx, focuses on other parts of Jefferson's life but wrote that his actions as governor \"toughened him on the inside.\" It is this period, when Jefferson was literally tested under fire, that Michael Kranish illuminates in Flight from Monticello.\nFilled with vivid, precisely observed scenes, this book is a sweeping narrative of clashing armies--of spies, intrigue, desperate moments, and harrowing battles. The story opens with the first murmurs of resistance to Britain, as the colonies struggled under an onerous tax burden and colonial leaders--including Jefferson--fomented opposition to British rule. Kranish captures the tumultuous outbreak of war, the local politics behind Jefferson's actions in the Continental Congress (and his famous Declaration), and his rise to the governorship. Jefferson's life-long belief in the corrupting influence of a powerful executive led him to advocate for a weak governorship, one that lacked the necessary powers to raise an army. Thus, Virginia was woefully unprepared for the invading British troops who sailed up the James under the direction of a recently turned Benedict Arnold. Facing rag-tag resistance, the British force took the colony with very little trouble. The legislature fled the capital, and Jefferson himself narrowly eluded capture twice.\nKranish describes Jefferson's many stumbles as he struggled to respond to the invasion, and along the way, the author paints an intimate portrait of Jefferson, illuminating his quiet conversations, his family turmoil, and his private hours at Monticello. \"Jefferson's record was both remarkable and unsatisfactory, filled with contradictions,\" writes Kranish. As a revolutionary leader who felt he was unqualified to conduct a war, Jefferson never resolved those contradictions--but, as Kranish shows, he did learn lessons during those dark hours that served him all his life.\n\nTake a look at pictures from Flight from Monticello\n(Click on images to enlarge)\n\nThomas Jefferson by John Trumbull, from life, 1787-1788.\nCourtesy of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation\/Monticello.\nJefferson’s diary entry for June 4, the day he fled Monticello just before the enemy arrived, says, “British horse came to Monticello.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress.\n\nView from Monticello, looking toward Charlottesville, 1827, by Jane Pitford Braddick Peticolas.\nCourtesy of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation\/Monticello.\nThomas Jefferson’s sketch of the first version of Monticello. Jefferson was in the midst of building this early iteration of his mansion when the British invaded. Courtesy of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation\/Monticello.\n\nFry-Jefferson Map, of Virginia and Maryland, co-drawn by Thomas Jefferson’s father, Peter Jefferson.\nCourtesy of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation\/Monticello., ISBN13: 9780195374629 ISBN10: 0195374622 Material Type: hardcover","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51245281182003,"sku":"CH_11-08-24_PHA_301JUO","price":36.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/71brccV7ecL.jpg?v=1753609421"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin","title":"Benjamin Franklin","description":"Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father., ISBN13: 9780300095326 ISBN10: 0300095325 Material Type: hardcover","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51246051754291,"sku":"FA_05-21-24_PHA_301DIH","price":11.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/71Mm8P3rAdL.jpg?v=1753610698"},{"product_id":"george-whitefield-americas-spiritual-founding-father","title":"George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father","description":"Winner of Christianity Today's 2016 Book Award for History\/Biography: an engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist George Whitefield\n\n\"The most authoritative yet readable book on the eighteenth century’s greatest preacher.\"—Marvin Olasky, World Magazine\n\n\"Kidd’s theologically sympathetic approach gives the book a depth that a more detached treatment might not: He misses none of the biblical allusions that peppered Whitefield’s utterances, and he is an excellent guide through the tangled doctrinal controversies that dogged Whitefield’s career.\"—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal\n\nIn the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. 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The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right.\n\nFlora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. 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Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was \"as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, has discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing.\" In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today \"hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams.\" For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large--a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles.\n\nFrom Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to \"keep it in storage\"). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. 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