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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives) by Hitchens, Christopher is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives) about?
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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hitchens, Christopher
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060837068
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (971 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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