Includes index.

The library of the presidents series.

"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.

Thomas Jefferson, our third president was interested in everything. He played violin, spoke seven languages and was a scientist, naturalist, botanist and mathematician among other things.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

After her mother's death, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson accompanies her father Thomas Jefferson to his posting in France, where she learns of her father's liason with a slave girl and falls for his prot�eg�e.

"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist...