Volume 40, Number 14 · August 12, 1993
The Aesthete
By Garry Wills
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
an exhibition at Monticello, Virginia,April 13–December 31, 1993
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
by Susan R. Stein
Abrams/The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 472 pp., $65.00
The Jefferson of political myth was a radical populist. He walked to his inauguration after eating at his boarding house. He received diplomats in his slippers. He seated guests at the President's House 'pell-mell,' without regard to social rank.
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