Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America, (Paperback)

from tututhefirst

Not really about the dinner at all. Very conjectural on the part of the author. I was disappointed in the description of the book, and would never have chosen to read it if I'd realized it was so fictional. The story is disjointed and if the reader is waiting for the dinner, the wait is long, and...

from Carmenere

I read it because.........The title intrigued me. Having been to Monticello, I expected wine for the dinner to be moved up from Jefferson's elaborate wine cellar on pulley's he devised, of his guests patiently waiting for him in his foyer filled with artifacts from his travels and a dinner of bot...

from arouse77

while i scooped this off the shelf with some enthusiasm when i saw it at the library, i must say it left me cold. it took me no less than three tries to even get started (never a good sign) and once i did manage to pick it up i had to fight the urge to put it back down again. this book was based ...

from Pool_Boy

This was a pretty good read. More about the politics of the day and the relationships between Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison, with a good measure of Washington thrown in, too. The dinner, the lead up to it and the post-dinner analysis were there, but not really the point of the book -- which was...