Jefferson's Monticello

Virginia's Monticello was President Thomas Jefferson's home for the last fifty-six years of his life. The author of the Constitution of the United States spent forty of those years building it, transforming it, tearing it apart, and putting it together again. He knew and loved every inch of the house and the land that surrounded it. Here, in this essay from New York Times bestselling author Robert Wernick, is the story of the place Jefferson called home.