Jefferson's Monticello /

By:

Adams, William Howard

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0896593940 :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.4/6/0924 19

LOC classification:

E332.74 .A3 1983

Summary: No Great House in American more clearly reflects the intellectual and esthetic vision of its creator more then Monticello. The complex history of its design and construction reaches back to a first version Thomas Jefferson began in 1768, when he was twenty-five years old, and continues in constant alterations and additions almost up to 1826, the year its architect and builder died. Few men of destiny ever lived in more civilized elegance then Jefferson. Taking his political and social inspiration wherever he could find them in history or in experience, he strove to build a house harmonious with human dignity, the same ideal he followed in helping formulate the philosophy of American government. [cont...]

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	E332.74 .A3 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001144

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 269-271.

English

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer

Welcome to the

AVRC Library Catalogue

Jefferson's Monticello /