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""A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state."" Publishers Weekly George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young protege, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours later, when help arrived, Wythe was quick to tell anyone who would listen, ""I am murdered."" Over the next two weeks, as Wythe suffered a long and painful death, insults would be added to his mortal injury. I Am Murdered tells the bizarre true story of Wythe's death and the subsequent trial of his grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney, for the crimeunquestionably the most sensational and talked-about court case of the era. Hinging on hit-and-miss forensics, the unreliability of medical autopsies, the prevalence of poisoning, race relations, slavery, and the law, Sweeney's trial serves as a window into early nineteenth- century America. Its particular focus is on Richmond, part elegant state capital and part chaotic boomtown riddled with vice, opportunism, and crime. As Wythe lay dying, his doctors insisted that he had not been poisoned, and Sweeney had the nerve to beg him for bail money. In I Am Murdered, this signer of the Declaration of Independence, mentor to Thomas Jefferson, and ""Father of American Jurisprudence"" finally gets the justice he deserved."
This novel takes place from 1801 to 2057, and is written in the format of an alternative history. Following the murder of America's third President , by the son of one of his slave mistresses; there is no Louisiana Purchase; no United States of America West of the Mississippi River; and no American Civil War. But, there is a vigilante group called the White Sons of Virginia that chases the run-a-way slave and his descendants into the Twenty First Century when the story come to a thrilling climax during a Texas Hurricane in October, 2057 in the Gulf of México.
This novel takes place from 1801 to 2057, and is written in the format of an alternative history. Following the murder of America's third President, by the son of one of his slave mistresses; there is no Louisiana Purchase; no United States of America West of the Mississippi River; and no American Civil War. But, there is a vigilante group called the White Sons of Virginia that chases the run-a-way slave and his descendants into the Twenty First Century when the story come to a thrilling climax during a Texas Hurricane in October, 2057 in the Gulf of México.
Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, leaving behind a series of mysteries that captured the imaginations of historical investigators-an interest rekindled by the recent revelation that he fathered a child by Sally Hemmings, a woman he legally owned-yet there is still surprisingly little known about him as a man. In Jefferson's Secrets Andrew Burstein focuses on Jefferson's last days to create an emotionally powerful portrait of the uncensored private citizen who was also a giant of a man. Drawing on sources previous biographers have glossed over or missed entirely, Burstein uncovers, first and foremost, how Jefferson confronted his own mortality; and in doing so, he reveals how he viewed his sexual choices. Delving into Jefferson's soul, Burstein lays bare the president's thoughts about his own legacy, his predictions for American democracy, and his feelings regarding women and religion. The result is a moving and surprising work of history that sets a new standard, post-DNA, for the next generation's reassessment of the most evocative and provocative of this country's founders.
“Dazzling. . . The most revolutionary reimagining of Jefferson’s life ever.” –Ron Charles, Washington Post Winner of the Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlisted for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms. Novels such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird and Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks are a part of a long tradition of American fiction that plumbs the moral and human costs of history in ways that nonfiction simply can't. Now Stephen O’Connor joins this company with a profoundly original exploration of the many ways that the institution of slavery warped the human soul, as seen through the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. O’Connor’s protagonists are rendered via scrupulously researched scenes of their lives in Paris and at Monticello that alternate with a harrowing memoir written by Hemings after Jefferson’s death, as well as with dreamlike sequences in which Jefferson watches a movie about his life, Hemings fabricates an "invention" that becomes the whole world, and they run into each other "after an unimaginable length of time" on the New York City subway. O'Connor is unsparing in his rendition of the hypocrisy of the Founding Father and slaveholder who wrote "all men are created equal,” while enabling Hemings to tell her story in a way history has not allowed her to. His important and beautifully written novel is a deep moral reckoning, a story about the search for justice, freedom and an ideal world—and about the survival of hope even in the midst of catastrophe.
Culinary secrets revealed by the Father of Fine Dining in America! Here's a remarkable collection of delightful handwritten recipes - you'll love Jefferson's personal comments in this 120-page book! Little known facts revealed in Thomas Jefferson's personal cookbook. This was the cookbook that Jefferson carefully wrote in his own hand and brought back to the US after his four years in Paris. His little granddaughter, Virginia Randolph, carefully copied these recipes as well as additional ones from various cooks at Monticello and the White House!
Was Thomas Jefferson a cold-blooded serial killer, or was he simply one of the luckiest heirs in the history of America? The evidence in this book comes primarily from Jefferson''s own correspondences, or letters written to him by his contemporaries. Twenty-one individuals, living along the path of Jefferson''s chronological itinerary, died mysteriously from what doctors described as an "unknown illness." In every case, Jefferson benefited from that person''s death. In many instances he inherited property in the form of land, slaves, or books. In other instances, his legacy, which was being threatened by that person''s existence, was rescued by that person''s demise. All twenty-one deaths occurred in five very distinct, recognizable clusters. If the twenty-one deaths were, indeed, murders, it is the fifth and final cluster, consisting of four deaths, which presents us with a potential methodology. It involved four individuals whose continued existence threatened to destroy the legacy that Jefferson had worked a lifetime to create. One was a co-conspirator in the Aaron Burr plot to overthrow the current government of the United States. Another was the newspaper editor that was perpetuating the rumor that Jefferson had fathered a child with one of his fifteen-year-old slaves. It was the other two deaths, within that final cluster, which presents us with the possibility that all twenty-one "unknown illnesses" were caused by the intentional administration of arsenic poison. The two victims in this double murder case were the eighty-year-old George Wythe, Jefferson''s famous mentor from forty years earlier, and a sixteen-year-old teenager that was Wythe''s most recent prot�g�, named Michael Brown. It was believed that Wythe''s grand-nephew, George Wythe Sweeney, had intentionally administered arsenic poison to the pair. Sweeney had become the primary suspect because he was a beneficiary of Wythe''s considerable estate. After a short trial, and a twenty minute deliberation of the jury, Sweeney was found not guilty. Technically, that means that the case is still unsolved. And, since both Broadnax and Jefferson were also heirs to the Wythe estate, they earn the top spots as potential suspects. Are there good reasons to suspect Broadnax, Jefferson, or both, of poisoning Wythe and Brown? Broadnax cooked the meal, and brewed the coffee, which Wythe and Brown consumed that fateful morning. Sweeney, who would also, normally, share in that breakfast ritual, left early that morning. If Sweeney had died, along with Wythe and Brown, and Wythe had not lived long enough to adjust his will, then Lydia Broadnax would have become a very wealthy woman. As for Jefferson, this intriguing case had the potential to satisfy two motives that might have caused Jefferson to turn to the "inheritor''s powder" solution. Jefferson had a very unhealthy addiction to book collecting. As this investigative study will clearly show, that addiction was not yet sated by either the inheritance of his father''s incredible library, or the inheritance of his father-in-law''s even more tremendous library. Jefferson, in 1806, was heir to Wythe''s extraordinary law library. Could this continual inheritance of library collections, ending with Wyhe''s, be coincidental? It is certainly possible. Jefferson, however, had an even greater motive for wanting Wythe and Brown to die in the same instance. There was a second decree, stipulated within Wythe''s last will and testament, which doomed the pair. Wythe had left the mentorship of Brown to President Jefferson. James T. Callender had told the world that the first-born son of Thomas Jefferson was named Tom, and that he was between ten and twelve years old. "Tom" would have been sixteen by 1806. Michael Brown was a mulatto, and he was sixteen when he died in 1806. Jefferson''s legacy would have been doomed if Brown had outlived Wythe.