Most Blessed of the Patriarchs

from DLMorrese

This biography focuses on Jefferson's personal life, his home, his family, and his attitudes about them. He was progressive in many ways, a man of the Enlightenment, but his beliefs about gender, race, and religion remained constrained by his times. The impression I'm left with from this book is ...

from sethwilpan

I'll give it a three because the light it sheds on Jefferson's character outweighs my dissatisfaction with it's literary merit. The “Empire of the Imagination” of the subtitle seems to refer not only to the glorious republic that Jefferson imagined the new nation could become, but also to the sel...

from msaucier818

A great book on Thomas Jefferson by the expert on him - Annette Gordon-Reed. This book is not a traditional biography. It does go through his life chronologically, but it is a bit more thematic in nature as it focuses more on his views on family, slavery, society, etc... there is very little in t...