Title: Character assasination posing as biography
Product review: Having much respected O'Brien's writings on Irish history, I was thoroughly looking forward to his take on Thomas Jefferson. Was Jefferson a secret supporter of the Great Terror of the French revolution? Sadly, this is not a biography so much as it is a hatchet job. Jefferson was no saint. So what? Saints don't make for interesting lives anyway. But most of O'Brien's attacks are not substantiated; they're of the "this is the opinion I formed the other day while shaving" variety. This unremitting character assassination -- screed may be a better word -- is not worth the paper it is printed on.
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