[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] good evening and thank you for coming and spending your evening with us tonight. I am delighted to be here on stage with you. But these two incredible historians and biographers and allaround great people. Im i melissa, with National Public radio, annette gordonreed and peter onuf, authors of a new book and we are going to talk about Thomas Jefferson. Welcome to all of you. Again, thank you for being here on this beautiful night, you are in doors on a gorgeous washington night. I want to start with the title of the book, the most blessed of the patriarchs, you talk about in the preface is of the book that Thomas Jefferson writes that hes planning on going back to monticello in virginia, he is writing a letter to angelica skyler church, for those of us cannot hear the name with out thinking angelica, eliza. He is ready to her in london and talking about her plans to go back to monticello. Part of the writer letter reads i have my house to
[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] good evening and thank you for coming and spending your evening with us tonight. I am delighted to be here on stage with you. But these two incredible historians and biographers and allaround great people. Im i melissa, with National Public radio, annette gordonreed and peter onuf, authors of a new book and we are going to talk about Thomas Jefferson. Welcome to all of you. Again, thank you for being here on this beautiful night, you are in doors on a gorgeous washington night. I want to start with the title of the book, the most blessed of the patriarchs, you talk about in the preface is of the book that Thomas Jefferson writes that hes planning on going back to monticello in virginia, he is writing a letter to angelica skyler church, for those of us cannot hear the name with out thinking angelica, eliza. He is ready to her in london and talking about her plans to go back to monticello. Part of the writer letter reads i have my house to
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