where is thomas jefferson's home?
Monticello
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 The towns and cities he visited — including Fayetteville , North Carolina , the first city named in his honor — gave him enthusiastic welcomes . He visited Washington City , the capital , and was surprised by the simple clothing worn by President Monroe , and the lack of any guards around the White House . In Virginia , he went to Mount Vernon , as he had forty years before , this time viewing Washington 's grave . On 19 October 1824 , he was at Yorktown for the anniversary of Cornwallis 's surrender , then journeyed to Monticello to meet with his old friend Jefferson — and Jefferson 's successor , James Madison , who arrived unexpectedly . Lafayette had dined with the other living former president , 89 @-@ year @-@ old John Adams , at his home near Boston . 

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 William Legrand has relocated from New Orleans to Sullivan 's Island in South Carolina after losing his family fortune , and has brought his African @-@ American servant Jupiter with him . The story 's narrator , a friend of Legrand , visits him one evening to see an unusual scarab @-@ like bug he has found . The bug 's weight and lustrous appearance convince Jupiter that it is made of pure gold . Legrand has lent it to an officer stationed at a nearby fort , but he draws a sketch of it for the narrator , with markings on the carapace that resemble a skull . As they discuss the bug , Legrand becomes particularly focused on the sketch and carefully locks it in his desk for safekeeping . Confused , the narrator takes his leave for the night . 

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 Jefferson , the leader of the Democratic @-@ Republican Party and then – Vice President , wrote to Madison in August 1799 outlining a campaign to strengthen public support for the principles expressed in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 ( commonly referred to as " the principles of ' 98 " ) : 

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 Thomas Jefferson : An Intimate History was published in February 1974 , and it was the main spring selection of the Book @-@ of @-@ the @-@ Month Club . Brodie tried to ensure that none of the three foremost Jefferson scholars , Dumas Malone , Merrill Peterson , and Julian Boyd , would review the book . Brodie was interviewed on NBC 's Today Show , and the book quickly " became a topic of comment in elite social @-@ literary circles , " as well as among political people . The biography was an immediate commercial success ; it was on the New York Times bestseller list for thirteen weeks . Jefferson sold 80 @,@ 000 copies in hardback , 270 @,@ 000 copies in paperback , and netted Brodie $ 350 @,@ 000 in royalties — adjusted for inflation , more than a million dollars in the early twenty @-@ first century . 

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 In 1789 , Sally and James Hemings returned to the United States with Jefferson . He was 46 years old and seven years a widower . As shown by Jefferson 's father @-@ in @-@ law , John Wayles , wealthy Virginia widowers frequently took enslaved women as concubines . Historian Joshua D. Rothman noted that it was not unusual for the time for Jefferson to choose to do so . White society simply expected these men to be discreet . 
