Thomas Jefferson An Intimate History

by Brodie, Fawn M.; Gordon-Reed, Annette

• ISBN13: 9780393338331
• ISBN10: 0393338339
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-06
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

With a novelist's skill and a scholar's meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and love'”ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political ideas and his presidency. Far advanced for its time, Brodie's biography was the first to set forth a convincing case that Thomas Jefferson was the father of children by his slave Sally Hemings. In a new introduction, Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prize'winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello , explores the impact of Brodie's groundbreaking book and explains why it is still such a powerful account of one of our greatest and most elusive presidents.

Author Biography

The late Fawn M. Brodie was professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of several other noted biographies, including The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton, also published in Norton paperback.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction, Annette Cordon-Reed	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
The Semi-Transparent Shadows	p. 21
The Parents	p. 33
A Sense of Family	p. 47
A Capacity for Involvement	p. 57
A Problem with the Forbidden	p. 68
Martha Jefferson	p. 80
The Revolutionary	p. 90
Jefferson and Independence-The Domestic Problem	p. 104
The Flight from Power	p. 120
Jefferson and the War	p. 135
Jefferson Writes a Book	p. 150
The Two Marthas	p. 162
The Return to Politics	p. 172
Restlessness and Torment	p. 185
My Head and My Heart	p. 199
The Second Interlude	p. 216
Sally Hemings	p. 228
The Revolutionary Goes Home	p. 246
The Satellite Sons	p. 257
Disillusionment in Eden	p. 276
Triangles at Monticello	p. 287
Candidate à Contre Coeur	p. 301
Callender	p. 315
Jason	p. 324
Betrayal	p. 339
Jefferson under Attack	p. 357
Death, Hatred, and the Uses of Silence	p. 376
Jefferson and Burr	p. 393
A Genius for Peace	p. 412
Like a Patriarch of Old	p. 422
Writer of Letters	p. 443
The Monticello Tragedy	p. 455
Reminiscences of Madison Hemings	p. 471
Reminiscences of Israel Jefferson	p. 477
"My Head and My Heart"	p. 483
The Family Denial	p. 493
Notes	p. 503
Bibliography	p. 559
Index	p. 571
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