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作       者:Scharff, Virginia

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2010-10-01

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Throughout his life, Thomas Jefferson constructed a seemingly impenetrable wall between his public legacy and his private life, a division maintained by his family and the several traditional biographies written about this founding father. Now Virginia Scharff breaks down the barrier between Jefferson's public and private histories to offer an intriguing new portrait of this complicated and influential figure, as seen through the lives of a remarkable group of women.Scharff brings together for the first time in one volume the stories of these diverse women, separated by race but related by blood, including Jefferson's mother, Jane Randolph; his wife, Martha; her half sister, Sally Hemings, his slave mistress; his daughters; and his granddaughters. "Their lives, their Revolutions, their vulnerabilities, shaped the choices Jefferson made, from the selection of words and ideas in his Declaration, to the endless building of his mountaintop mansion, to the vision of a great agrarian nation that powered his Louisiana Purchase," Scharff writes. Based on a wealth of sources, including family letters, and written with empathy and great insight, The Women Jefferson Loved is a welcome new look at this legendary American and one that offers a fresh twist on American history itself.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Family Tree

A Few Words on Nomenclature and Genealogy

Introduction

Part I - Jane

Chapter 1 - The Planter’s Daughter

Chapter 2 - The Planter’s Wife

Chapter 3 - The Widow Jefferson

Chapter 4 - The Revolutionary’s Mother

Part II - Martha

Chapter 5 - The Debt Collector’s Daughter

Chapter 6 - Bride and Widow

Chapter 7 - Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson

Chapter 8 - Martha’s Property

Chapter 9 - His World and Hers

Chapter 10 - Domestic Tranquility

Chapter 11 - The War Comes Home

Chapter 12 - The Butcher’s Bill

Part III - Sally

Chapter 13 - Stories and Shadow Families

Chapter 14 - Summoned and Sent

Chapter 15 - Paris

Photographic Insert

Chapter 16 - Amazons versus Angels

Chapter 17 - Sally’s Choice

Chapter 18 - Coming Home

Part IV - Patsy and Polly

Chapter 19 - Patsy and Polly

Chapter 20 - Trouble in the Neighborhood

Chapter 21 - Domestic Tranquility, Revisited

Chapter 22 - Danger

Chapter 23 - Scandal

Chapter 24 - Motherhood and Mortality

Part V - A House Divided

Chapter 25 - Domestic Diversification

Chapter 26 - The Pursuit of Happiness

Chapter 27 - The Perils of Matrimony

Chapter 28 - The Capriciousness of Fortune

Chapter 29 - When We Think How We Liv’d but to Love Them

Dramatis Personae

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Additional Praise for The Women Jefferson Loved

Illustration Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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