Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built by Marc Leepson

Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built

Marc Leepson

303 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826 -- the nation's fiftieth birthday -- he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final...

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