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Article: Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built / The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House

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July 1, 2001
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Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built. By MARC LEEPSON. New York, London, and Toronto: Free Press, 2001. 303 pp. $22.50 cloth.

The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-- 1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House. By MELVIN I. UROFSKY. Preface by MICHAEL KAMMEN. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001. 256 pp. $39.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.

TODAY many Americans regard Monticello as one of the cornerstones of the nation. Yet few know of its occupants or fate after Thomas Jefferson died in 1826. This ignorance stems partly from the fact that professional historians focused little on historic preservation until the 1960s. Charles B. Hosmer ...

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