This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most serious amusement. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuitive understanding of Jefferson, McLaughlin crafts and uncommon portrait of builder and building alike. En route he tells us much about life in Virginia; about Monticello's craftsmen and how they worked their materials; about slavery, class, and family; and, above all, about the multiplicity of domestic concerns that...
This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For...
FROM THE AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE This is the story of an obsession, an obsession by two men that steam could propel a vessel upstream against a strong current. One is a historical figure, John Fitch. More than a decade before Robert Fulton, Fitch placed a steamboat in regular service on the Delaware River. The second, Timothy Chase, is a young man who fell unannounced into my imagination and took up permanent residence there. I soon learned that he had a passion for steam engines, a beguiling innocence, and a talent for getting into trouble. Once I had set the two figures in motion it seemed...
FROM THE AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE This is the story of an obsession, an obsession by two men that steam could propel a vessel upstream against a strong curre...
Ask anyone: Jim Sain is a pompous, naked, free thinker. He's also the mayor of Berkeley.
One of his high school chums has moved back to renovate Hamilton House, one wacky adventure at a time, and who knows what's coming next? The mayor has been dubbed "mR. bERZERKELEY" by a cartoonist who is determined to embarrass him (and undermine his bid for reelection). His personal life is as colorful as his political life. He gives his detractors plenty of fodder to fuel his demise (but in his eyes, these are not signs of moral weakness).
In this spoof that cheerfully brings the sixties into...
Ask anyone: Jim Sain is a pompous, naked, free thinker. He's also the mayor of Berkeley.
One of his high school chums has moved back to renovate...
Ask anyone: Jim Sain is a pompous, naked, free thinker. He's also the mayor of Berkeley.
One of his high school chums has moved back to renovate Hamilton House, one wacky adventure at a time, and who knows what's coming next? The mayor has been dubbed "mR. bERZERKELEY" by a cartoonist who is determined to embarrass him (and undermine his bid for reelection). His personal life is as colorful as his political life. He gives his detractors plenty of fodder to fuel his demise (but in his eyes, these are not signs of moral weakness).
In this spoof that cheerfully brings the sixties into...
Ask anyone: Jim Sain is a pompous, naked, free thinker. He's also the mayor of Berkeley.
One of his high school chums has moved back to renovate...
For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dull-and that's just the way he likes it. In this, the final installment of his mR. bERZERKELEY trilogy, Jack McLaughlin wraps up his love song to the other city by the bay.
Mayor Sain has a lot on his mind these days. He's in Virginia City, involved in a murder trial; the accused is Asia, his half-sister, and she has been charged with their father's murder. Jim's an up-and-coming reality television star whose rise to fame and (possible) fortune is the talk of Hamilton House....
For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dull-and that's just the way he likes...
For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dull-and that's just the way he likes it. In this, the final installment of his mR. bERZERKELEY trilogy, Jack McLaughlin wraps up his love song to the other city by the bay.
Mayor Sain has a lot on his mind these days. He's in Virginia City, involved in a murder trial; the accused is Asia, his half-sister, and she has been charged with their father's murder. Jim's an up-and-coming reality television star whose rise to fame and (possible) fortune is the talk of Hamilton House....
For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dull-and that's just the way he likes...
