Thomas Jefferson: Author of America.
HITCHENS, Christopher.
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America.
First Edition of Christopher Hitchens' Thomas Jefferson; Inscribed by Him
New York: Harper Collins, 2005.
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First edition of this biography of Thomas Jefferson. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Comrade Mike Christopher Hitchens.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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.
