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Can I read Jefferson and Monticello : The Biography of a Builder on EtoBox?
Jefferson and Monticello : The Biography of a Builder by Jack MacLaughlin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jefferson and Monticello : The Biography of a Builder about?
A National Book Award nominee in 1988, Jack McLaughlin's biography tells the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most serious amusement. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuitive understanding of Jefferson, McLaughlin crafts and uncommon portrait of builder and building alike. En route he tells us much about life in Virginia; about Monticello's craftsmen and how they worked their materials; about slavery, class, and family; and, above all, about the multiplicity of domestic concerns that preoccupied this complex man. It is an engaging and incisive look at the eighteenth-century mind: systematic, rational, and curious, but also playful, comfort-loving, and amusing. Ultimately, it provides readers with great insight into daily life in Colonial and Federal America.
Who reads Jefferson and Monticello : The Biography of a Builder?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jack MacLaughlin
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company, Inc
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805014631
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (183 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14