Joseph J. Ellis

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Any aspiring biographer of Jefferson, recognizing the ink already spilled and the libraries already filled, might do well to recall the young Virginian's famous words of 1776. Which is to say that no one should undertake yet another book on Thomas Jefferson for "light...

Preface In 1776 Thomas Jefferson sounded the call for freedom in the Declaration of Independence with words that have come to symbolize liberty and equality to millions of people around the world. Jefferson's and America's ringing declaration, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all...