Master of the Mountain

Title: Master of the Mountain Author: Henry Wiencek ISBN: 9780374534028 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 2013 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good C 1635332 Publisher Description: Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive Master of the Mountain--based on new information coming from archival research, archaeological work at Monticello, and hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Thomas Jefferson's own papers--opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's faraway world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profit" gained from his slaves--and thanks to the skewed morals of the political and social world that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. It is not a pretty story. Slave