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The world is full of evils. I cannot bear to hear the stuck hogs squeal, nor see a horse ill-used, nor think there could be anywhere an unloved child. The differences in human station seem to me not even the greatest evil.
When Martha Skelton finds herself falling in love with a shy young burgess named Thomas Jefferson, it feels like an inconvenience. Widowed at twenty-two, Martha has no desire to lose...
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence when he was only thirty-three. He served as Governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War, and then he became the first Secretary of State, the second Vice President, and the third President of the United States. He was a profound spiritual thinker who wrote The Jefferson Bible, and in his old age he founded the University of Virginia. Our history holds few who can...
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Thomas Jefferson was a Burgess of 27 when he met Martha Wayles Skelton, a 22-year-old widowed heiress who was fondly called Patty, by her family. They were married on January 1, 1772, and they took up residence in a cabin on the building site on top of a Virginia mountain that Thomas had named Monticello.
As Thomas and Patty slowly built the first version of the great house...
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- PublisherWheatmark
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1627870709
- ISBN 13 9781627870702
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages392
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My Thomas: A Novel of Martha Jefferson's Life (Letters from Love Series, Prelude)
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