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thomas jefferson author of america
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 . with intelligence insight eloquence and wit hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex formative figure and his turbulent era .
paperback harper perennial 2009 isbn13 9780060837068 isbn10 0060837063
abridged n isbn 13 9780060837068 number in series 1 number of pages 188 publisher harpercollins release date 62135769600000 series title eminent lives