by Myron Magnet
© Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by Robert Lautman
Monticello entrance hall
© Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by Charles Shoffner
© Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by Robert Lautman
Monticello parlor
© Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by Carol Highsmith
Monticello cabinet;
© Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by Robert Lautman
Monticello tea room;
© Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by Sequoia Design
Monticello underground passage
© Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by William L. Beiswanger
James Madison at age thirty-two by Charles Willson Peale (1783);
The Granger Collection, New York
Dolley Payne Todd Madison by Gilbert Stuart (1804)
The Granger Collection, New York
Montpelier
Courtesy of the Montpelier Foundation
Montpelier’s Old Library, where Madison crammed for constitution making in 1786;
Courtesy of the Montpelier Foundation
Montpelier as enlarged by the du Ponts;
Photograph by Alfredo Mail. Courtesy of the Montpelier Foundation, James Madison’s Montpelier
the tempietto over Montpelier’s ice house
Courtesy of the Montpelier Foundation
James Madison at age eighty-two by Asher Brown Durand (1833)
Courtesy of the Century Association
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Magnet, Myron.
The founders at home : the building of America, 1735–1817 /
Myron Magnet. — First Edition.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-393-24021-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-393-24188-4 (e-book)
1. Founding Fathers of the United States—Biography. 2. Statesmen—United States—
Biography. 3. United States—Politics and government—Philosophy. I. Title.
E302.5.M19 2014
973.2—dc23
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