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Article: His home was his heart.(Thomas Jefferson)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 4, 2005
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He drafted the Declaration of Independence. He served as secretary of state to George Washington and vice president to John Adams. He was president of the United States for two terms and almost doubled the country's size by negotiating the Louisiana Purchase. And he most likely fathered his slave's children.
Perhaps no other person in U.S. history has been studied, debated, and written about more than Thomas Jefferson. Yet books alone won't give a full understanding of the man. For that, you need to visit Monticello, the 5,000-acre plantation nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, with its hilltop architectural wonder. Jefferson inherited the land and ...
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