The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series Volume 6

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series Volume 6Volume 6 covers the period from March to November 1813. Although freed from the cares of government, during the War of 1812 Thomas Jefferson is unable to disassociate himself from politics entirely. He recommends that gunboats be used to protect the Chesapeake Bay and writes three long letters to John Wayles Eppes urging the rapid repayment of the national dept and reining in of the American banking system. Despite his concern that the British naval

He also seeks to end Philadelphia journalist William Duane's growing estrangement from mainstream Republican politics

The Baron de Montlezun and Francis Hall provide informative accounts of Jefferson's home

After his residence France

made for Monticello

historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826

even as British ships gathered off Staten Island

Coolidge records the details of her conversations with writers such as Samuel Rogers

as they might well have done

lobbies for the appointment of a committed Republican to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court

Print length: 352 pages

with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool

contradictions