Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

7 best books like Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (Alan Pell Crawford): Marie Antoinette: The Journey, The House at Sugar Beach, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, Letters and Papers from Prison, Talleyrand, President James Buchanan: A Biography, Jefferson's Sons

Marie Antoinette: The Journey
AuthorAntonia Fraser
ISBN0307277747
Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.

Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...
The House at Sugar Beach
AuthorHelene Cooper
ISBN0743266242
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced...
AuthorDavid Levering Lewis
ISBN0805068139
I checked the second volume of Lewis' DuBois biography out of the library right after finishing the first volume which I think is a testament to the excellence of the author's work. Volume II was much harder to make my way through, which is not due to any fault of Lewis. In the second volume you could feel...
Letters and Papers from Prison
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0684838273
One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’...
Talleyrand
AuthorDuff Cooper
ISBN0802137679
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's...
AuthorPhilip Shriver Klein
ISBN0945707118
The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republics are traditionally ungrateful, and in Buchanan's case the American republic has been notoriously thankless to the man who was, from log cabin to White House, the relentless foe of fanatics and demagogues;...
Jefferson's Sons
AuthorKimberly Brubaker Bradley
ISBN0803734999
The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave children

Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and while they do get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even violin lessons - they are still slaves, and are never to...
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