This compelling new biography of Jefferson is set amid the historical drama of the new nation\'s struggle for independence.
With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure and his turbulent era..
A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy.
A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property.
A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker.
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father--a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature.
The Author presents a portrait of a formative figure and a turbulent era in history.
This compelling new biography of Jefferson is set amid the historical drama of the new nation\'s struggle for independence
