America's First Daughter: A Novel

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by Stephanie Dray


  12.In what ways did Patsy shape her father’s legacy? In what ways did she shape our own? In what ways is she America’s First Daughter?

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  For Further Reading

  Fiction

  Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America by Amy Belding Brown

  Jack Absolute by C. C. Humphreys

  The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry

  Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

  The Midwife’s Revolt by Jody Daynard

  The President’s Daughter by Barbara Chase-Riboud

  Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell

  Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud

  Thieftaker by D. B. Jackson

  The Traitor’s Wife by Allison Pataki

  Turncoat by Donna Thorlund

  Nonfiction

  American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan

  The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

  Jefferson’s Adoptive Son: The Life of William Short, 1759–1848 by George Green Shackelford

  Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello by Andrew Burstein

  Jeffersonian Legacies by Peter S. Onuf

  Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 by Mary Beth Norton

  Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times by Cynthia Kierner

  Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek

  The Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Peter S. Onuf

  Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government by Catherine Allgor

  Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture by Jan Lewis and Peter S. Onuf

  Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America by Cynthia Kierner

  Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman

  Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Portrait by Fawn Brodie

  Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed

  “Those Who Labor for My Happiness”: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello by Lucia Stanton

  Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson by Alan Pell Crawford

  The Women Jefferson Loved by Virginia Scharff

  Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda Kerber

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  Advance Praise for America’s First Daughter

  “A delectable and poignant read… . It deftly draws on the volatile atmosphere of Jefferson’s time, recounting his daughter’s little-known story—a heroine tested to the limit, loaded with grit and determination. All the right chords are struck here. You’re going to want to read slow and savor this one. Bravo.”

  —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key

  “A triumphant, controversial, and fascinating plunge into the complexities of Revolutionary America, where women held power in subtle ways and men hid dangerous secrets. You’ll never look at Jefferson or his legacy the same way again.”

  —C. W. Gortner, bestselling author of Mademoiselle Chanel

  “Painstakingly researched, beautifully hewn, compulsively readable—this enlightening literary journey takes us from Monticello to Revolutionary Paris to the Jefferson White House, revealing remarkable historical details and dark family secrets, and bringing to life the colorful cast of characters who conceived of our new nation. A must-read.”

  —Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Empress

  “America’s First Daughter is the story of a generation caught between the past and the future of a nation, and illuminates how the actions of one woman managed to sustain a family in spite of the consequences of both privilege and poverty. Not since Gone with the Wind has a single-volume family saga so brilliantly portrayed the triumphs, trials, and sins of a family in the American South.”

  —Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway’s Girl and The House of Hawthorne

  “Fiction can go boldly where history treads warily. In this compelling, poignant novel, Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie open the door into the heart of Martha Jefferson Randolph, the motherless daughter, long-suffering wife, devoted mother, and passionate protector of her famous father’s lies, secrets, and silences. A remarkable and insightful achievement.”

  —Virginia Scharff, author of The Women Jefferson Loved

  “America’s First Daughter brings a turbulent era to vivid life. All the conflicts and complexities of the Early Republic are mirrored in Patsy’s story. It’s breathlessly exciting and heartbreaking by turns—a personal and political page-turner.”

  —Donna Thorland, author of The Turncoat

  “I didn’t realize how starved I was for a beautifully written American historical until I read America’s First Daughter… . Laced with intricate detailing, plumped with authentic letters, and filled with plenty of fast-paced, harrowing scenes, Dray and Kamoie nailed it!”

  —Heather Webb, author of Rodin’s Lover

  Credits

  Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

  Cover photographs: Monticello © De Agostini Picture Library/ M. Seemuller/Getty Images; woman © Lee Avison/Trevillion Images

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER. Copyright © 2016 by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  EPub Edition MARCH 2016 ISBN 9780062347275

  ISBN 978-0-06-234726-8

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  *Translated here into contemporary English. To see the original, visit http://tjrs.monticello.org letter2052.

 

 

 
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