'Most Blessed of the Patriarchs': Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Liveright, April 2016. Hardcover. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure--a riddle--a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people--including his own family--in bondage, Jefferson is variably.....