[PDF.02gz] Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built

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

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| How Monticello was saved after Jefferson's death...|By Cynthia K. Robertson|Most Americans are not aware of the extensive history of Monticello from the time that Thomas Jefferson died in 1826 to what we see today when we visit his historic home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Marc Leepson sets the record straight in his fascinating book, Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's E|From Publishers Weekly|In this excellent account of Monticello's ownership after Thomas Jefferson's death, Leepson, who has written for the New York Times, Preservation and Smithsonian, turns the spotlight on a family that contributed to the preservation of hist

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 goodbye to Monticello itself. The house their illustrious patriarch had lovingly designed in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, his beloved "essay in architecture," was sold to the highest bidder.
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