<p>Though books about Thomas Jefferson could fill a small library, there has long been a need for an authoritative, single-volume biography that captures the public and private man as well as the tumultuous age in which he lived. This gracefully rendered portrait fulfills that need.<p>Throughout the
Thomas Jefferson: A Life
✍ Scribed by Willard Sterne Randall
- Publisher
- New Word City, LLC
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 810
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journalist to challenge long-held assumptions about the reasoning, motives, and works of this sage, philosopher, politician, and romantic. Exploring both Jefferson’s interior and public struggles, Randall sheds important light on Jefferson’s thoughts on slavery and his relationship with the slave Sally Hemmings, as well as Revolutionary and diplomatic intrigues.
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