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Understanding Thomas Jefferson
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Understanding Thomas Jefferson (2001) (edit title/settings)

by E. M. Halliday (Author) (edit contributors)

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Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character -- famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation yet secret lover of a beautiful slave for 30 years, aristocrat yet fervent advocate of government by the people. E. M.... read more

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ing and the peasants of the metropolis are trudging sullenly to their ill-paid travail-if they are so lucky as to have jobs at all. The sexual mores of this haut monde, on the fringe of which widower Thomas Jefferson, the newly appointed American minister to France, soon was to find himself, are rather touchingly hinted at by the story of Lafayette's marriage.

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  1. E. M. Halliday (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0060197935
Page Count: 304

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