Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
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An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this best-selling biography broke new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life. Here for the 1st time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling & passion. With a novelist's skill & meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows him as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race & love—ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political writing & his decision making. The portrait that results adds a whole new depth to those of the past.
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
The semi-transparent shadows
The parents
A sense of family
A capacity for involvement
A problem with the forbidden
Martha Jefferson
The revolutionary
Jefferson & independence
the domestic problem
The flight from power
Jefferson & the war
Jefferson writes a book
The two Marthas
The return to politics
Restlessness & torment
My head & my heart
The second interlude
Sally Hemings
The revolutionary goes home
The satellite sons
Disillusionment in Eden
Triangles at Monticello
Candidate a Contre Coeur
Callender
Jason
Betrayal
Jefferson under attack
Death, hatred, & the uses of silence
Jefferson & Burr
A genius for peace
Like a patriarch of old
Writer of letters
The Monticello tragedy
Appendix 1 Reminiscences of Madison Hemings; Reminiscences of Israel Jefferson
Appendix 2 "My head & my heart"
Appendix 3 The family denial
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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