Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power - Plot & Excerpts
—JOHN PAGE to Thomas Jefferson, spring 1776 The bells rung all day and almost all night. Even the chimers chimed away. —JOHN ADAMS, describing the reaction to the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, 1776 AT ABOUT SEVEN O’CLOCK on the morning of Sunday, March 31, 1776, Jefferson’s mother, Jane, fifty-five years old, was stricken with a stroke and succumbed within an hour. Jefferson asked the Reverend Charles Clay to preside over the funeral. Jane Randolph Jefferson was buried at Monticello. In seeing that his mother was put in ground he held sacred, near others he loved, Jefferson made certain that she would always be part of his home, and part of him. Jane’s death disoriented her son. Already immersed in the most difficult and fearful of political enterprises—revolution and the creation of a new form of government—Jefferson was brought face-to-face with one of the deepest personal crises a man can experience.
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