num_pages: 551
description: 'The Sage of Monticello' brilliantly recounts the accomplishments friendships and family difficulties of Jefferson's last seventeen years--including his retirement from Washington and the presidency his correspondence with John Adams and James Madison his mounting personal tribulations and his role in the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia where he proved himself to be an extraordinary educator and architect as well as a statesman. This is a fitting final chapter in the life of one of America's greatest men.
language: English
title: The Sage of Monticello
publisher: Little Brown & Co