![]() ![]() Her choice will follow her in the years to come, to Virginia farmland, Monticello, and even the White House. ![]() ![]() Torn between love, principles, and the bonds of family, Patsy questions whether she can choose a life as William’s wife and still be a devoted daughter. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love-with her father’s protege William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. It is in Paris, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution, that fifteen-year-old Patsy learns about her father’s troubling liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph-a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.įrom her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still.Īs Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter, she becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother’s death, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France. ![]()
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