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Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
by Michael Kranish
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0195374622
- ISBN 13
- 9780195374629
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*Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War -1st Edition - Michael Kranish ISBN-13: 978-0195374629, 0195374622, Full number line, still giftable small amount of wear on its edges, blackboards, red wrapped spine with black titling. Small quarter inch tear at foot of book on Dust jacket, most of the wear is on the dust jacket itself from being shelved- some small dings on one of the corners not that noticeable, I noticed it as I was photographing ... - extraordinary story...When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence - the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his presidency or that he was second governor of the state of Virginia, in the most trying hours of the Revolution. Illuminated in Flight from Monticello...... Filled with vivid, precisely observed scenes, book is a sweeping narrative of clashing armies--of spies, intrigue, desperate moments, and harrowing battles. Story opens with the first murmurs of resistance to Britain, the colonies struggled under an onerous tax burden, colonial leaders--including Jefferson--fomented opposition to British rule. Captures the tumultuous outbreak of war, local politics behind Jefferson's actions in the Continental Congress (and his famous Declaration), his rise to the governorship. Jefferson's life-long belief in the corrupting influence of a powerful executive led him to advocate for a weak governorship, one that lacked the necessary powers to raise an army. Virginia was woefully unprepared for the invading British troops who sailed up the James under the direction of a recently turned Benedict Arnold. Facing rag-tag resistance, the British force took the colony with very little trouble. The legislature fled the capital, and Jefferson himself narrowly eluded capture twice. Jefferson's many stumbles as he struggled to respond to the invasion, and along the way, an intimate portrait of Jefferson, illuminating his quiet conversations, his family turmoil, his private hours at Monticello. "Jefferson's record was both remarkable & unsatisfactory, filled with contradictions," A revolutionary leader who felt he was unqualified to conduct a war, Jefferson never resolved those contradictions--but, , he did learn lessons during those dark hours that served him all his life......Flight from Monticello:Thomas Jefferson at War: Thomas Jefferson at War Author Michael Kranish First edition full number line -Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 ISBN 0195374622, 9780195374629 Length 400 pages Subjects History ' Revolutionary ...Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy pictured - carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit. 7 Days Coast to Coast, faster if closer...... Flight Montecito HC 6076 BIO 2 WB JLOHR *
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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6076
- Title
- Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
- Author
- Michael Kranish
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Full number line
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195374622
- ISBN 13
- 9780195374629
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010-02
- Keywords
- .Flight from Monticello:Thomas Jefferson at War: Thomas Jefferson at War Author Michael Kranish First edition full number line -Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 ISBN 0195374622, 9780195374629 Length 400 pages Subjects History › Revolutionary
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- Biography & Autobiography;
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- 400 pages
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