History/book board: looking for a good book on Thomas Jefferson

Google Sally Hemming's and you'll find the details of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with her & the many children they produced.

I read the Jefferson Bible recently. Maybe an interesting companion to a good biography.

The art of power- Jon Meachem

I’ll be damned, I didn’t know they had made a book board. Well my bad then, pls delete

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The art of power- Jon Meachem

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Seconded. Very comprehensive and Meachem is a fantastic writer. Most of the time, you don't even feel like you're reading a biography.

He wrote another one in a similar style about Andrew Jackson. Very very good. Titled American Lion

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I’m pretty skeptical of Jefferson and think he may have been quite overrated so I’d like to read more about him

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Jefferson was a poetic statesman. He certainly was not overrated for that; he wrote some of the most beautiful and inspiring prose of the revolutionary period. However, he was not a man to put himself in harm's way. He was not a fighter, and in his day, some thought him a coward. His plans for an agrarian society, in which men lived pure lives close to nature, were immediately overwhelmed by Hamilton's vision of a financial, commercial empire.

So he was way wrong on the future of America; he was not a warrior; and he was a slaveowner, although he was against slavery. Against this, he was the poet of the revolution, wrote the Declaration of Independence, and consummated the Louisiana Purchase. A mixed bag, but on balance I say he was a great man.

The art of Power

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The art of power- Jon Meachem

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Start here.