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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: James Madison
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ISBN: 9780813941097
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Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Author: Henry Thomas Scott
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691184836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all?" Jefferson muses in this volume. His answer: "I do not know that it is." Required by custom to be "entirely passive" during the presidential campaign, Jefferson, at Monticello during the summer of 1800, refrains from answering attacks on his character, responds privately to Benjamin Rush's queries about religion, and learns of rumors of his own death. Yet he is in good health, harvests a bountiful wheat crop, and maintains his belief that the American people will shake off the Federalist thrall. He counsels James Monroe, the governor of Virginia, on the mixture of leniency and firmness to be shown in the wake of the aborted revolt of slaves led by the blacksmith Gabriel. Arriving in Washington in November, Jefferson reports that the election "is the only thing of which any thing is said here." He is aware of Alexander Hamilton's efforts to undermine John Adams, and of desires by some Federalists to give interim executive powers to a president pro tem of the Senate. But the Republicans have made no provision to prevent the tie of electoral votes between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson calls Burr's conduct "honorable & decisive" before prospects of intrigue arise as the nation awaits the decision of the House of Representatives. As the volume closes, the election is still unresolved after six long days of balloting by the House.

Author: John Quincy Adams
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168296
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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The Retirement Series documents Jefferson's written legacy between his return to private life on 4 March 1809 and his death on 4 July 1826. During this period Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and sold his extraordinary library to the nation, but his greatest legacy from these years is the astonishing depth and breadth of his correspondence with statesmen, inventors, scientists, philosophers, and ordinary citizens on topics spanning virtually every field of human endeavor.--From publisher description.

Author: John Ward Dean
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Adams, John Quincy
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623764920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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