Fawn McKay Brodie "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History."
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the US, and the writer of "The Declaration Of Independence" who has probably more right to be called the Father of the Country than George Washington.
Fawn Brodie's book is a masterpiece. She was the first one to openly discuss the relationship between Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings, and that she discusses it without criticizing Jefferson, who was a free man and therefore could maintain a relationship with whomever he wished.
Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political writing and his decision making. The portrait that results adds a whole new depth to those of the past.
W.W. Norton & Co Inc; First Edition, 1974.
Hardcover with DJ.
New book. Taped tears on DJ. Minor shelf wear from rubbing. Otherwise, like new inside.