'With what majesty do we there ride above the storms!' Jefferson at Monticello

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Thomas Jefferson's lifelong obsession with Monticello helps to explain both the nature of his thought and the mysteries of the man. Owner, architect, and construction manager all in one, he began in 1768 but repeatedly tore apart his own handiwork, rebuilding compulsively across half a century before leaving the house unfinished at his death in 1826. Throughout, Jefferson's declared love for the tranquillity of home warred with his compulsive desire to tinker with its terms, and he saw the contradiction clearly enough to acknowledge it, once referring to the presumed grandeur of Monticello as ...

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