In this 16th installment of the Jefferson 101 Series, we discuss the period from 1794 to 1797 and Jefferson’s return to Monticello after his tenure as Secretary of State.
Further Reading:
- Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack (2016)
- Thomas Jefferson: the Apostle of Americanism by Chinard Gilbert
- The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson by Sarah N. Randolph
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- Alan Pell Crawford for The Washington Post: "A House Called Bizarre" (2000)
- Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson by Alan Pell Crawford (2009)
What Would Jefferson Do?
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Jefferson 101 is a series of biographical shows about the life of Thomas Jefferson that ran from 2016 to 2017.
Jefferson was a pragmatic utopian, and a utopian pragmatist.
I’m a devoted American patriot. I love this country, but I want it to be more like the country I love than the disillusioned, vulgar, and divisive place it has become.
"Two seraphs await me long shrouded in death; I will bear them your love on my last parting breath."
— Thomas Jefferson, July 1826
We conclude our Jefferson 101 biographical series by discussing his final days at Monticello, his legacy, and the deaths of both Jefferson and John Adams on July 4th, 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.