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JEFFERSON

The messy, contradictory life of Thomas Jefferson—from writing the Declaration of Independence to the brutal election of 1800 that would define American democracy.

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What This Book Covers

  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter One - The Orphan of Shadwell
  3. Chapter Two - The Young Statesman
  4. Chapter Three - Writing a Nation
  5. Chapter Four - Fire and Flight
  6. Chapter Five - To France, With Complications
  7. Chapter Six - Hamilton’s Shadow
  8. Chapter Seven - The Vice Presidency Nobody Asked For
  9. Chapter Eight - The Bloodless Revolution
  10. Chapter Nine - The Empire of Liberty
  11. Chapter Ten - The Slaveholder-in-Chief
  12. Chapter Eleven - The Embargo Disaster
  13. Chapter Twelve - The Monticello Mind
  14. Chapter Thirteen - The Myth Machine
  15. Chapter Fourteen - The Real Revolution

Excerpt

PROLOGUE HE STANDS ALONE in marble. In silence. Beneath a dome, on a pedestal, words etched into the wall behind him like scripture: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” It’s the quote that made the cut. Not the ones about “blood watering the tree of liberty,” or the ones about “negro inferiority.” Not the ones where he fretted over what would happen if his Black “property” ever demanded freedom, the very thing he claimed to love most. No. They chiseled this line in stone. The line that makes him look righteous. Clean. Simple. But Thomas Jefferson was never simple. He was a paradox in boots and breeches. He penned the...

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