Andrew Burstein - The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist
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Thomas Jeffersons personal life has always been a puzzle to biographers. Even his contemporaries found him difficult to know. In Jeffersons correspondence, however, Andrew Burstein has found a key to the inner man. This penetrating and thoughtful portait confronts widespread misunderstandings about Jeffersons romantic life and provides insight into the contradictions that still surround our third president.
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University Press of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE AND LONDON
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THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Copyright 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
First published 1995 Second printing 1996
First paperback edition 1996
Frontispiece: Thomas Jefferson as secretarty of state in 1791, portrait by Charles Willson Peale. (Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Burstein, Andrew. The inner Jefferson: protrait of a grieving optimist/Andrew Burstein. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8139-1618-6 (cloth)/ISBN 0-8139-1720-4 (paper) 1. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. 2. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Correspondence. 3. Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. 4. Presidents United States Biography. I. Title. E332.B96 1995 973.4'6 dc20
Printed in the United States of America
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To Hannah and Julius for the love and the determination And to David for the spirit
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Style has always some reference to an author's manner of thinking. It is a picture of the ideas which arise in his mind, and of the manner in which they rise there; and hence, when we are examining an author's composition, it is, in many cases, extremely difficult to separate the style from the sentiment. Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Letters (1783)
Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity life follows my pen. the days and hours of it are flying over our heads like clouds of windy day never to return more[.] every thing presses on and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make! Thomas and Patty Jefferson's adaptation of a sentiment from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, written in the hand of both Jeffersons near the time of Patty's death in 1782. See fig. 5.
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Contents
Preface
xi
Chronology
xvii
Introduction
1
1 The Well-Ordered Dreamworld
12
2 Sensitivity and Sterne
42
3 The Sensations of Europe
68
4 Letter Writing and Friendship
116
5 Friends, Neighborhood, and the Family Fireside
150
6 Obstructed Vision
196
7 Retirement, Religion, and Romantic Death
246
Conclusion
273
Notes
293
Index
327
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Illustrations
Portrait of Jefferson by Charles Willson Peale, 1791 Frontispiece
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