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Author : Bruce Chadwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (914 download)
Download or read book I Am Murdered written by Bruce Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Chadwick
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9781681621050
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation written by Bruce Chadwick and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""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 protege, 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 crimeunquestionably 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."
Author : Joyce Blackburn
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book George Wythe of Williamsburg written by Joyce Blackburn and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Holowchak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616147296
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Framing a Legend written by Mark Holowchak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Luigi Marco Bassani
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881461865
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Liberty, State & Union written by Luigi Marco Bassani and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the political ideals of Thomas Jefferson, discussing his views on the rights of man and state's rights, and describing the political theory that guided Jefferson's decisions as the nation's third president.
Author : Imogene E. Brown
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Aristides written by Imogene E. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652432
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Education written by Alan Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian comes a brilliant, absorbing study of Thomas Jefferson’s campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. It offers an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson set against a social fabric of planters in decline, enslaved black families torn apart by sales, and a hair-trigger code of male honor. A man of “deft evasions” who was both courtly and withdrawn, Jefferson sought control of his family and state from his lofty perch at Monticello. Never quite the egalitarian we wish him to be, he advocated emancipation but shrank from implementing it, entrusting that reform to the next generation. Devoted to the education of his granddaughters, he nevertheless accepted their subordination in a masculine culture. During the revolution, he proposed to educate all white children in Virginia, but later in life he narrowed his goal to building an elite university. In 1819 Jefferson’s intensive drive for state support of a new university succeeded. His intention was a university to educate the sons of Virginia’s wealthy planters, lawyers, and merchants, who might then democratize the state and in time rid it of slavery. But the university’s students, having absorbed the traditional vices of the Virginia gentry, preferred to practice and defend them. Opening in 1825, the university nearly collapsed as unruly students abused one another, the enslaved servants, and the faculty. Jefferson’s hopes of developing an enlightened leadership for the state were disappointed, and Virginia hardened its commitment to slavery in the coming years. The university was born with the flaws of a slave society. Instead, it was Jefferson’s beloved granddaughters who carried forward his faith in education by becoming dedicated teachers of a new generation of women.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Works of Thomas Jefferson written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Kranish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199745900
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War written by Michael Kranish and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Filled 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. Kranish 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.
Author : Vincent Sheean
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy written by Vincent Sheean and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Jefferson centers on his public life and career.
Author : Francis Wrigley Hirst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Early Life & Letters of John Morley written by Francis Wrigley Hirst and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Jefferson
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book On Democraty written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0385383444
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book My Name Is James Madison Hemings written by Jonah Winter and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A powerful historical picture book about the child of founding father Thomas Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings. In an evocative first-person account accompanied by exquisite artwork, Winter and Widener tell the story of James Madison Hemings’s childhood at Monticello, and, in doing so, illuminate the many contradictions in Jefferson’s life and legacy. Though Jefferson lived in a mansion, Hemings and his siblings lived in a single room. While Jefferson doted on his white grandchildren, he never showed affection to his enslaved children. Though he kept the Hemings boys from hard field labor—instead sending them to work in the carpentry shop—Jefferson nevertheless listed the children in his “Farm Book” along with the sheep, hogs, and other property. Here is a profound and moving account of one family’s history, which is also America’s history. An author's note includes more information about Hemings, Jefferson, and the author's research. "This gentle, emotional book is a reminder that many presidents’ biographies have distressing aspects. . . . A simple but historically solid introduction to some of the moral crises slavery presented for our nation." --The New York Times "Through a poignant first-person monologue, Winter imagines the peculiar upbring- ing of Virginia slave James Madison Hemings, son of Thomas Jefferson and his enslaved mistress, Sally Hemings.”—Bulletin, starred review
Author : Suzanne Harman Munson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979649858
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Jefferson's Godfather, the Man Behind the Man written by Suzanne Harman Munson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Suzanne Munson's] biography details for the first time Wythe's thinking behind the achievements that Jefferson listed as his most important lifetime accomplishments."--Adapted from back cover.
Author : David Barton
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1595554599
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book The Jefferson Lies written by David Barton and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted historian Barton sets the record straight on the lies and misunderstandings that have tarnished the legacy of Thomas Jefferson.
Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465016242
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Documents Of American Prejudice written by S. T. Joshi and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1968-01-21 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us know something of America's long history of racial prejudice, but it's easy to forget the extent to which explicit racism has been, until only recently, an acceptable part of public discourse, in many cases espoused by some of the country's most influential and public figures and bolstered by references to well-respected scientific, religious, and philosophical theories. In Documents of American Prejudice, S. T. Joshi provides an anthology of primary documents tracing the evolution of racial prejudice since early colonial times.In the more than 100 selections spanning more than 300 years of injustice, we hear the voices of both well-loved and reviled figures, from Thomas Jefferson to David Duke. They write about the supposed shortcomings of specific ethnic and racial groups and in defense of racist theories like Social Darwinism and eugenics. Included also are arguments against racism, which highlight a tradition of anti-racist writing in American history. Sobering, lively, infuriating, and provocative, this thoughtfully edited anthology shows us America's long and tangled history of racial prejudice and helps us understand contemporary American racism through the prism of the country's history.
Author : Jessie Louise Beattie
Publisher : Ryerson Press [1957]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Moses written by Jessie Louise Beattie and published by Ryerson Press [1957]. This book was released on 1957 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the life of Josiah Henson, an ex-slave who escaped to Canada and founded the Negro refugee colony at Dawn, Ontario. Using his own memoirs and other contemporary sources, Miss Beattie has given us an authentic and exciting picture of this arresting figure in Canadian life, whose early years provided Harriet Beecher Stowe with material for her character of Uncle Tom.
