"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-ReedMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
If you're looking for a biography in the strictest sense of the word, this is not the book for you. But if you would like to delve deeper in the dichotomy that was Thomas Jefferson -- dig in!
It goes well beyond what we've read in history books, and devotes one of its three parts to the time he spent in Paris after his wife died.
The books also explores his views on, among other things, slavery and how he could write "all men are created equal" and justify having slaves himself.
Any history lover should like this book.
*I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review.*
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