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Pursuit of Happiness: 12/01/12
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Saturday, December 1, 2012. Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. Complete novel available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback). The story continues…. 8220;Forever Abigail,” Thomas mumbled. We were in the entrance hall of Langeac. He’d sat to read letters just delivered by the artist, John Trumbull. Mr. Short was settling our new guest in his room, where Jimmy and I had helped carry some of the artist’s paraphernalia. 8220;A materials order? 8221; I asked. 8220;I’ll take care of it, Thomas.”. 8220;Yes, tha...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 10/20/12
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Saturday, October 20, 2012. Critics of Slaveholder Jefferson. Are Prisoners of a Time Warp. Few negatives about Thomas Jefferson come through louder and clearer than criticism of his having owned slaves. So did other presidents, but Jefferson’s writings on liberty have made him appear hypocritical. In that time. And place, however, slaveholding didn’t look quite so onerous—except to slaves. As he observed many years later, slavery was like seizing a wolf by the ears—“we can neither hold him n...Present-d...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 11/17/12
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Saturday, November 17, 2012. 8216;Hungry for More’ About Sally. The cover story of The New York Times’s. On Sunday, November 11, 2012, was an evaluation of Jon Meacham’s The Art of Power. An acclaimed treatment of Jefferson’s political methods. Jill Abramson, executive editor of the Times,. Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. Complete novel available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback). The story continues…. Thomas held my upper arms to steady me. “We’ve waited too long,” he said. I blubbered, “Th...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 11/03/12
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Saturday, November 3, 2012. Residents in the area of Ottawa, Kansas, will have an opportunity to take part in the popular continuing education course about Thomas Jefferson the University of Kansas sponsors. Offered as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning series, Explaining the. Will be on the schedule at Ottawa April 9, 16, and 23, 2013—all Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 pm The site will be the campus of the University of Ottawa. Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. The story continues…. In Thomas’s absen...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 09/08/12
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Saturday, September 8, 2012. Current Foreign Language Film. Anticipates Sally Book Scenes. Who was Madame de Polignac? Thomas Jefferson mentions her to Sally Hemings in Chapter 10 of Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. Was Mme. Polignac a lover (among others) to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France? And the movie (with English subtitles) emphasizes that Polignac feared traveling in or near Paris of the late 1780s because she was so despised for her connection to the Queen. In Sally of Monticello. For the ...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 09/22/12
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Saturday, September 22, 2012. Bill Moyers makes poorly informed. Judgments of Thomas Jefferson. The summer of 2012 wouldn’t have been complete without a little Jefferson-bashing, and surprisingly from PBS commentator Bill Moyers. His pre-Independence Day remarks were quoted online by Huffpost Arts and Culture:. Blog comment by Herbert Barger. Disputes Thomas-Sally liaison, but. What does the TJ Foundation say? From published material by. Barger posted this comment on Pursuit of Happiness August 30:.
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Pursuit of Happiness
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Conclusions in Diagnosing Jefferson. Are Partially Confirmed by New Data. When the book Diagnosing Jefferson. First appeared in 2000, a few skeptics criticized the author’s conclusions. Norm Ledgin maintained Thomas Jefferson’s many eccentricities were consistent with genetically based Asperger’s Syndrome. Luke had a son, William (1768-1820), and William had a son also named William (1800-48). The second William’s son was Isaac Jefferson (1824-97), who had a son, Andre...What ro...
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Jazz Town | Beth's Everything Blog
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Beth's Everything Blog. My name is Patch and I play the Trumpet. The night we played in Little Rock this big Bruiser yelled at Pete, “What are doin’ up there makin’ out with this nice little white girl? We don’t cotton to no niggers makin’ out with our white girls.”. Tells the true-to-life story of music, sex and crime in an era and place famous for both: Kansas City. 8211; Paperback Edition on Amazon.com. 8211; Kindle Edition on Amazon.com. July 29, 2012 at 4:07 pm. August 2, 2012 at 8:39 am. Fill out t...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 11/24/12
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Saturday, November 24, 2012. Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. Complete novel available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback). The story continues…. Three weeks into my quarantine I received a letter from Marie de Botidoux, a classmate of Patsy’s I’d befriended at the Abbaye de Royale Panthémont. She wished me well in my stay at the Père-Lachaise clinic, then passed on a remarkable story. Because it was mostly in French, I sought help of a female attendant. She pauses to ask that he consider accompanyin...
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