Download or read book Monticello, a Family Story written by Elizabeth Coles Langhorne and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson, the public man, is a familiar and oft-chronicled figure. But the private Thomas Jefferson has been little studied. Now Elizabeth Langhorne, drawing upon public records and hitherto-unpublished documents, has produced an intimate and fascinating account of our third president and numerous members of his family, including some of his slaves, as they lived their private and sometimes tumultuous lives at Jefferson's beloved Monticello. Includes illustrations. -- from the jacket