Twilight at Monticello: the final years of Thomas Jefferson

Prologue: "I Shall Be for Ever at Ease"

Part 1. Morning and Midday

Chapter 1. A Society of Would-be Country Squires

Chapter 2. An Upcountry Prince

Chapter 3. The Education of a Philosopher

Chapter 4. The Young Revolutionary

Chapter 5. The Crucible of Revolution

Chapter 6. Whence He Might Contemplate the Whole Universe

Chapter 7. The Hated Occupations of Politics

Chapter 8. The Revolutionary Takes Command

Chapter 9. In a State of Almost Total Incapacity

Part 2. Late Afternoon and Sunset

Chapter 10. A Prisoner Released from His Chains

Chapter 11. Elevated Above the Mass of Mankind

Chapter 12. When I Expect to Settle my Grandchildren

Chapter 13. The Shock of an Earthquake

Chapter 14. Old Friends Reunited

Chapter 15. At War Again

Chapter 16. This Enterprise Is for the Young

Chapter 17. When I Reflect That God Is Just

Chapter 18. A Library for "the American Statesman"

Chapter 19. Jeff Randolph Takes a Wife

Chapter 20. The Realm of "Sobriety and Cool Reason"

Chapter 21. To Witness the Death of All Our Companions

Chapter 22. The Eternal Preservation of... Republican Principles

Chapter 23. The Indulgent Patriarch

Chapter 24. The "Yellow Children" of the Mountaintop

Chapter 25. Something Very Great and Very New

Chapter 26. Struggling "All Our Lives with Debt & Difficulty"

Chapter 27. Blood in the Streets of Charlottesville

Chapter 28. Fire, Sickness, Drought, and Storm

Chapter 29. A Philosophe's Faith

Chapter 30. We Shall Have Every Religious Man in Virginia Against Us

Chapter 31. The Death Knell of the Union

Chapter 32. The "Hideous Evil" of Slavery

Chapter 33. "Ah, Jefferson!" "Ah, Lafayette!"

Chapter 34. More Than Patience Could Endure

Chapter 35. Take Care of Me When Dead...

Chapter 36. An Inspiration from the Realms of Bliss

Chapter 37. I Have Given My Whole Life to My Country

Chapter 38. Is It the Fourth?

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Illustration Credits