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Jefferson: A Novel - Softcover

Byrd, Max

 
9780553568677: Jefferson: A Novel
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ISBN 10: 0553568671 ISBN 13: 9780553568677
Verlag: Bantam USA, 1994

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Told from the point of view of his young secretary, William Short, this critically acclaimed novel, based on exhaustive research, follows Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to France, statesman, husband, father, slave-owner, and intellectual. Reprint.

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ficent tradition if Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr, Max Byrd reveals a Thomas Jefferson we've never met before... It is 1784, and Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis Xvi and Marie-Antoinette had just arrived in Paris-a city adrift in intrigue, upheaval, and temptation that will challenge his principles, incite his passions, and change Thomas Jefferson forever... Through the eyes of his impressionable young secretary, William Short, we watch as the future president builds his dream of an America with fellow patriots John Adams and Ben Franklin, and as he struggles between political ambition and an unexpected crisis of the heart with a woman who has the power to destroy him. And we discover-behind the face the complex Virginian show the world-an enigmatic statesman who fi

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Verlag
Bantam USA
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0553568671
ISBN 13 
9780553568677
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