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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
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by William L. Beiswanger, Peter J. Hatch, Lucia Stanton, and Susan R. Stein
Sales Rank: 142045
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List Price: $45.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 240 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press December 5, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1882886186
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1882886180
Book Dimensions:
10.1 x 10 x 1 inches
Weighs: 3.2 pounds
Product Review
"A rare coffee-table book, not only handsome but full of worthwhile text and insights into the life . . . of Jefferson." -- Los Angeles Times
"This book takes us on a photographic and textual adventure into the spirit of Monticello." -- Southern Living
Product Review
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's awesome mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia, has attracted public attention ever since Jefferson's day, when sightseers regularly visited the grounds in hopes of catching a glimpse of the former president. Today, each year more than half a million people from around the world visit Monticello, the only home in America on the United Nations' list of World Heritage Sites that must be protected at all costs.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is a superb collection of essays, adorned with gorgeous color photography, that showcases this American treasure. Designed by Jefferson himself, Monticello is a model of elegance and symmetry. It is also home to Jefferson's world-class collection of art and porcelain from France, scientific instruments from England, the finest American furniture from Philadelphia and New York, and enduring furnishings made in Monticello's own joinery by enslaved craftsmen. The celebrated gardens and grounds form an experimental yet breathtakingly lovely landscape featuring flowers, fruits, and vegetables of the Old and New Worlds.
Featuring essays by Monticello's scholarly staff, this stunning book explores all aspects of Jefferson's home. A section on the plantation and the enslaved community at Monticello provides a greater context in which to place and understand the house, its activities, and its owner.
Many books have been devoted to Monticello; this stands with the best. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
This is a rare coffee-table book, not only handsome but full of worthwhile text and insights into the life and thinking of Jefferson as president, architect and Renaissance Man. (Los Angeles Times)
Foreward
Preface
Thomas Jefferson's Essay in Architecture
A Look Inside Monticello
Furnishing Monticello: Jefferson as Consumer and Collector
The Gardens of Monticello
The Plantation: A Day in the Life
Notes
Suggested Readings
Acknowledgments and Photo Credits
Index
About the Contributors
Reader Reviews
One of the clichés about Monticello is that few houses do so good a job revealing the personality of its builder. But clichés get to be such generally because there's truth to them, and that's definitely the case here. If Thomas Jefferson was one of the most interesting figures in American history (and I think that's unquestionably true), then Monticello may well be one of America's most interesting houses. And for this colorful book produced by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, we are guided through the house and grounds by people who know their stuff. Specifically, the chapters of this title are written by Monticello's director of restoration, the curator, the director of gardens and grounds, and other experts associated with the Foundation. Large, colorful photos are accompanied by informed commentary and all the requisite history, as well as documentation of the decades of restoration work it has taken to get the house and grounds to its current condition. A book doesn't make up for a visit in person -- if anything, I wished for more photos of the interior, especially of the book room and "cabinet." But for a general overview of the house, grounds, and collection, and an insight into the man himself, this book is hard to beat. I recommend it as a souvenir, as well as a nice companion to a Jefferson biography.
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