![]() It marks the author as one of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this generation. ![]() The Hemingses of Monticello is a brilliant book. It came into a world that midwived it with difficulty and was ill disposed to bless its growth or trust in its possibilities. Like Monticello, which was erected, redesigned on an ever grander scale, and rebuilt by fits and starts, the Jeffersonian ideal had no easy birth. Apart from Abraham Lincoln, who himself quoted Jefferson in the Gettysburg Address, no American ever wrote or said anything as eloquent as the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. ![]() Monticello in its present incarnation is an American showplace, the visible projection of its creator, Thomas Jefferson, architect, naturalist, diplomat, and president of the United States. ![]()
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