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| Prologue The World's Best Hope |
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PART I THE SCION Beginnings to Spring 1774 |
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Two What Fixed the Destinies of My Life |
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Three Roots of Revolution |
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Four Temptations and Trials |
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Five A World of Desire and Denial |
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PART II THE REVOLUTIONARY Spring 1774 to Summer 1776 |
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Six Like a Shock of Electricity |
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Eight The Famous Mr. Jefferson |
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Nine The Course of Human Events |
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PART III REFORMER AND GOVERNOR Late 1776 to 1782 |
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Eleven An Agenda for Liberty |
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Twelve A Troublesome Office |
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129 | (8) |
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Thirteen Redcoats at Monticello |
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137 | (7) |
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Fourteen To Burn on Through Death |
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144 | (9) |
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PART IV THE FRUSTRATED CONGRESSMAN Late 1782 to Mid-1784 |
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Fifteen Return to the Arena |
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Sixteen A Struggle for Respect |
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Seventeen Lost Cities and Life Counsel |
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166 | (13) |
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PART V A MAN OF THE WORLD 1785 to 1789 |
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Eighteen The Vaunted Scene of Europe |
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Nineteen The Philosophical World |
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Twenty His Head and His Heart |
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Twenty-One Do You Like Our New Constitution? |
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Twenty-Two A Treaty in Paris |
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PART VI THE FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE 1789 to 1792 |
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Twenty-Three A New Post in New York |
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231 | (15) |
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Twenty-Four Mr. Jefferson Is Greatly Too Democratic |
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246 | (13) |
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Twenty-Five Two Cocks in the Pit |
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259 | (12) |
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Twenty-Six The End of a Stormy Tour |
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PART VII THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION 1793 to 1800 |
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Twenty-Seven In Wait at Monticello |
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Twenty-Eight To the Vice Presidency |
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Twenty-Nine The Reign of Witches |
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Thirty Adams vs. Jefferson Redux |
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Thirty-One A Desperate State of Affairs |
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332 | (15) |
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PART VIII THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1801 to 1809 |
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Thirty-Two The New Order of Things Begins |
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Thirty-Three A Confident President |
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360 | (12) |
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Thirty-Four Victories, Scandal, and a Secret Sickness |
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Thirty-Five The Air of Enchantment! |
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383 | (11) |
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Thirty-Six The People Were Never More Happy |
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Thirty-Seven A Deep, Dark and Widespread Conspiracy |
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Thirty-Eight This Damned Embargo |
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Thirty-Nine A Farewell to Ultimate Power |
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PART IX THE MASTER OF MONTICELLO 1809 to the End |
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Forty My Body, Mind and Affairs |
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Forty-One To Form Statesmen, Legislators and Judges |
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Forty-Two The Knell of the Union |
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Forty-Three No Doctor, Nothing More |
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| Epilogue All Honor to Jefferson |
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| Author's Note And Acknowledgments |
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| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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| Illustration Credits |
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| Index |
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