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Title: Essential book on Jefferson
Review: I enjoyed this book a lot. I agree with the reviewer that said it was one-sided, but I've never read a Jefferson book that wasn't. (Read Joseph Ellis' American Sphinx to get a more critical view). It reads like a narrative, perhaps the only way to understand Jefferson's complex world. One shortcoming of this style is that it doesn't provide analysis, which I usually appreciate. A lot of it is "just the facts." But it is a great portrait of Jefferson as he emerges onto the national scene.
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