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American Icons: Monticello
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jul 5, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Monticello is home renovation run amok. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States; he designed Monticello to the fraction of an inch and never stopped changing it. Yet Monticello was also a plantation worked by slaves, some of them Jefferson’s own children. Today his white and black descendants still battle over who can be buried at Monticello. It was trashed by college students, saved by a Jewish family and celebrated by FDR. With Stephen Colbert, filmmaker James Ivory and artist Maira Kalman.(Originally aired October 22, 2010)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jul 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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