![]() ![]() With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure and his turbulent era. A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy. A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. In a letter to the Baptists of Danbury Connecticut in 1802, Jefferson assured them that there will always be a wall of seperation between Church and State. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. 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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Comrade Mike Christopher Hitchens.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. $700.00 Item Number: 69009įirst edition of this biography of Thomas Jefferson. ![]()
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