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The Women Jefferson Loved
by Scharff, Virginia
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061227072
- ISBN 13
- 9780061227073
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About This Item
New York: Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2010. xxiv, 464 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Map on lining papers. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "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. / Virginia Scharff is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She was a Beinecke Research Fellow at Yale University, holds the Women of the West Chair at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians, and is the former president of the Western History Association. She is also the author of four mystery suspense novels penned under the name Virginia Swift." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Title
- The Women Jefferson Loved
- Author
- Scharff, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0061227072
- ISBN 13
- 9780061227073
- Publisher
- Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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