The University of Virginia is one of America's greatest architectural treasures and one of Thomas Jefferson's proudest achievements. At his request his headstone says nothing of his service as America's first Secretary of State or its third President. It says simply: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." For this political genius was a supremely gifted artist as well, and of all Jefferson's stunning accomplishments, the school he built in Charlottesville is perhaps the most perfect expression of the man himself: as leader, as architect, and as philosopher.
- ISBN10 0792255607
- ISBN13 9780792255604
- Publish Date 15 August 2006 (first published 15 November 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 September 2020
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Geographic Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 160
- Language English