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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. By WILLIAM L. BEISWANGER, SUSAN R. STEIN, PETER J. HATCH, and LUCIA STANTON. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2002. xxii, 218 pp. $45.00.

SHAPED for almost sixty years by one of the most intricate minds in history, Monticello is extraordinarily difficult to grasp. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, the new book from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, offers much help to lay readers. The book will also serve scholars because it chiefly consists of five chapters in which four eminent specialists, all on the Monticello staff, offer documented condensations of their conclusions.

The foreword by Daniel P. Jordan, President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, ...

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