| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built. By Marc Leepson. (New York: Free Press, 2001. viii, 303 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7432-0106-X.)

When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he bequeathed the country a political legacy that continues to stimulate historical inquiry. Unfortunately, he left his family with a crushing debt. Jefferson's public reputation and his personal predilections created financial disaster. He spent liberally to entertain friends, admirers, and gawkers who traveled to Monticello, but he also denied himself little in the way of social and intellectual comforts, buying objects and comestibles at a rate that readily outpaced his income. Schemes to forestall the loss of the estate failed, and his family was forced to part with many of his possessions, slaves, and land. When those divestitures still came up short, the heirs finally sold Monticello in 1831. . . .

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