Thomas Jefferson

<p><strong>A balanced readable portrait. A refreshing perspective. --<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>With intelligence insight eloquence and wit bestselling author Christopher Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex formative figure in American history and his turbulent era</strong>.</p><p>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. A masterly writer Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. A reluctant candidate he left an indelible presidential legacy.</p>