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General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783

by Stanley Weintraub · 2003

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"Jefferson's Demons" shows how complicated Jefferson's own efforts to pursue happiness were. The book reveals the hidden life of a man who suffered through periods of headache and morbid horror.

Genre
war and military
Themes
ChristmasAmerican history
Setting
18th centuryUSAVirginia
Subject
historybiography
Audience
adult

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