Thomas Jefferson, the public man, is a familiar and oft-chronicled figure. But the private Thomas Jefferson has been little studied. Now Elizabeth Langhorne, drawing upon public records and hitherto-unpublished documents, has produced an intimate and fascinating account of our third president and numerous members of his family, including some of his slaves, as they lived their private and sometimes tumultuous lives at Jefferson's beloved Monticello. Includes illustrations. Elizabeth Langhorne is the author of Nancy Astor and Her Friends and the coauthor of A Virginia Family and Its Plantation Houses and has written historical monographs and number articles for scholarly journals and magazines

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