• ISBN13: 9780060837068
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: May 5, 2009
• Pages: 188
• Original Price: USD 17.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 159 grams

<p><b>From the Back Cover</b><br><p>In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father--a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy. With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure and his turbulent era.</p></p>