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1. 1. Twilight At Monticello

   The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

   

   A detailed portrait of the final decades at Monticello, showing a once-dominant Founding Father in retreat as chronic debt, failing health, and family and political strife erode his comfort and authority; drawing on letters, diaries, and legal records, the narrative explores how Enlightenment ideals collided with the realities of plantation slavery and financial mismanagement, how he strove to preserve an intellectual legacy (including the founding of the University of Virginia) and shape his final writings, and how private turmoil and shifting Virginian society complicated his public reputation and the meaning of the American experiment he helped lead.

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