![[Book #45768] Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder. Jack McLaughlin](https://groundzerobooksltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 481 pages, illus., endpaper floor plan, chronology, notes, index, front DJ torn and repaired with tape (from the interior). More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. viii, 481 p. Illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. A Jefferson Chronology. Notes. Index. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. First Owl Book Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. viii, [2], 481, [3] pages. Illustrations. A Jefferson Chronology. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. John [Jack} McLaughlin is an Emeritus Professor of English at Clemson University, where he was head of the Humanities Division. He is the author of Jefferson and Monticello, about the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his fifty-year love affair with Monticello, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1988. McLaughlin also wrote To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Letters to a President, and has contributed to such scholarly journals as Shakespeare Quarterly and Modern Drama. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ciii, [2], 481, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. A Jefferson Chronology. Notes. Index. There is some wear to the dust jacket. A look at Jefferson's private life reveals much about life in colonial and Federal America while exploring his lifelong passion for the building of Monticello. A National Book Award nominee in 1988, .Jack McLaughlin drew on his love for the people of the People’s Republic of Berkeley and all it stands for around the globe as inspiration for his Mr. Berkeley trilogy. The mythical Hamilton House, its wacky boarders, and their activities, trials and tribulations symbolize the salad that makes Berkeley and its inhabitants the most diverse and unique on the planet. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxxi, [1], 344, [6] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Index. Letters written to Thomas Jefferson while he was president, as well as his replies, offer insight into life in early nineteenth-century America. These letters, written to one of our most revered presidents and published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of his birth, provide a window into the life of a new nation and its people, offering vivid sketches of the writers, their families and the often precarious circumstances of their existence. Jefferson's careful filing of the letters that he received as President made possible this collection, which reveals something of the diverse beliefs and yearnings of his America. Jack McLaughlin is an Emeritus Professor of English at Clemson University, where he was head of the Humanities Division. He is the author of Jefferson and Monticello, about the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his fifty-year love affair with Monticello, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1988. McLaughlin also wrote To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Letters to a President, and has contributed to such scholarly journals as Shakespeare Quarterly and Modern Drama. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 344, illus., sources, notes, index, some soiling and sticker residue on rear DJ. More