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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post Entertainment Weekly The Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Bloomberg Businessweek<\/p>\n

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson\u2019s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things\u2014women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris\u2014Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson\u2019s world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. <\/p>\n

The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity\u2014and the genius of the new nation\u2014lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President\u2019s House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. <\/p>\n

The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.\u201d\u2014Gordon S. Wood <\/p>\n

\u201cA big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before.\u201d\u2014Entertainment Weekly<\/p>\n

\u201c[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . [An] absorbing tale.\u201d\u2014The Christian Science Monitor<\/p>\n

\u201cThis terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today.\u201d\u2014Doris Kearns Goodwin<\/p>\n

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Customers find the book excellent, enjoyable, and critical to read. They praise the writing quality as clear, elegant, and skillful. Readers describe the book as insightful, meticulously researched, and staggering. They say it’s an engaging, fast-moving biography of Thomas Jefferson. They also appreciate the great view of his personality and character. Customers describe the book as entertaining and hold their attention throughout. Overall, they say it provides the best look at Jefferson.<\/span><\/p>\n

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