Word: monticello
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...SAGE OF MONTICELLO by Dumas Malone Little, Brown; 551 pages...
...Life at Monticello was a case of hyperactive retirement. Jefferson always argued that no occupation was "so delightful to me as the culture of the earth." Now he had the chance to prove it, every morning after breakfast. Dinner, served at 4, constituted the social hour. The patriot gathered his clan about him: his daughter Martha, who ran the household, plus a varying assortment of twelve grandchildren, as well as random aunts, sons-in-law and omnipresent house guests...
Imagine what the sage of Monticello would have had to say about television. Today, in the perhaps hyperbolic words of Theodore White (The Making of the President), "television is the political process...