Dear Mr Jefferson

Author : Laura Simon
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 9780385333399
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mr. Jefferson written by Laura Simon and published by Delta. This book was released on 1999-04-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culure of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." --Thomas Jefferson An 18th-century statesman, a thoroughly modern gardener, a slightly one-sided correspondence on seeds, soil and the art of living... For years, novelist Laura Simon had been building a garden around her Nantucket home, nurturing onions from wispy, pungent seedlings, spreading manure in early spring, harvesting in fall. And with the passage of time, she longed for a correspondent with whom to exchange reflections on seeds and soil, to share her stories and her passion for gardening. Unable to find such a person, Ms. Simon turned to the works of the eighteenth-century statesman and avid horticulturist Thomas Jefferson. Thus began an only slightly one-sided correspondence between Ms. Simon and the Monticello gardener himself. Interweaving her own observations about past and present with selected passages from Jefferson's writings, Simon has crafted a true epistolary adventure, filled with history and humor, a literate guide to gardening--and living a well-cultivated life.

Author : Laura Simon
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 9780385333399
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mr. Jefferson written by Laura Simon and published by Delta. This book was released on 1999-04-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culure of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." --Thomas Jefferson An 18th-century statesman, a thoroughly modern gardener, a slightly one-sided correspondence on seeds, soil and the art of living... For years, novelist Laura Simon had been building a garden around her Nantucket home, nurturing onions from wispy, pungent seedlings, spreading manure in early spring, harvesting in fall. And with the passage of time, she longed for a correspondent with whom to exchange reflections on seeds and soil, to share her stories and her passion for gardening. Unable to find such a person, Ms. Simon turned to the works of the eighteenth-century statesman and avid horticulturist Thomas Jefferson. Thus began an only slightly one-sided correspondence between Ms. Simon and the Monticello gardener himself. Interweaving her own observations about past and present with selected passages from Jefferson's writings, Simon has crafted a true epistolary adventure, filled with history and humor, a literate guide to gardening--and living a well-cultivated life.

Author : Albert Jay Nock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Jefferson written by Albert Jay Nock and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196607
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson written by Hugh Howard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant statesman, Jefferson was all but unknown as an artist and an architect for nearly a century. But Kimball, an industrious scholar with a keen eye, made a series of critical discoveries that changed not just the image of Jefferson, but also rewrote the story of American architecture, introducing its first real practitioner. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, William Thornton, Robert Mills-Kimball identified the key figures who together with Jefferson transformed the craft of building into the art of architecture, at the same time setting the aesthetic tone for a young country still struggling to define itself. Part detective story, part narrative history, Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson recreates the stories of these visionary men through the lens of the amazing Fiske Kimball, who, in resurrecting their legacy, helped found the twin disciplines of historic preservation and architectural history. Hugh Howard's books include the definitive Thomas Jefferson, Architect; his memoir House-Dreams; the essay collection The Preservationist's Progress; and an introduction to the architecture of Williamsburg, Colonial Houses. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and their two teenage daughters.

Author : Chidem Kurdas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781794106659
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mr. Jefferson written by Chidem Kurdas and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1816. A young Englishman prepares to immigrate to the United States. A relative doubts the wisdom of the move. She writes to Thomas Jefferson and asks: Will it make him happy? The retired president is drawn into a correspondence that tracks the young man's adventures in America. There is a foreign agent, political intrigue, a fraught election, romance and a rich cast of historical figures on both sides of the Atlantic. As they observe the trajectory of people's lives and that of the young country, Jefferson and his pen pal argue about the pursuit of happiness. This is the second of the Binnford Trilogy novels based on American history. The first is "Adams: Letters to Hamilton."AUTHOR: Chidem Kurdas worked as journalist and taught economics to college students. Her previous books include "Seven Reasons to Love the Constitution" and "Ponzi Regulation." Follow her Twitter parody account Jennifer Kerfuffle @FauxTimesNews1 COVER ART: Medallion portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart, 1805. Copy via Wikipedia Commons. Original in Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. Edited and tinted by author.

Author : Lee Alan Dugatkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022663910X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose written by Lee Alan Dugatkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon

Author : Virginius Dabney
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813912134
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Jefferson's University written by Virginius Dabney and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1988-11-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874999891
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mr. President written by Jennifer Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictionalized letters between a 12-year-old girl living in Philadelphia and President Jefferson present their respective lives and explore the issues and events of the early 1800s

Author : Ann Turner Warren
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1630832588
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia written by Ann Turner Warren and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned is just a boy helping his mother run their boardinghouse the summer of 1776 when a tall, thin man named Mr. Jefferson comes to stay. He and other important colonists are there for the Congress in Philadelphia, to debate their charges against King George in England.

Author : Roger G. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288426
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause written by Roger G. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of the gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops--first tobacco, then cotton--sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.