Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History [Paperback]

With a novelists skill and a scholars meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and loveambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political ideas and his presidency. Far advanced for its time, Brodies biography was the first to set forth a convincing case that Thomas Jefferson was the father of children by his slave Sally Hemings. In a new introduction, Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofBrilliant, provocative. . . . A biography no one interested in the man or his times should miss.A powerful and touching portrait. . . . Brodie has humanized Jefferson without in the least diminishing him.A seminal biography of Thomas Jefferson and a fascinating exploration of his relationship with Sally Hemings.