Jefferson

"The reissue of this important biography of Jefferson comes at the right time. "The principles of Jefferson," said Abraham Lincoln, "are the definitions and axioms of a free society." It is our burden today that the very idea of this "free society" is being challenged. Dr. Padover emphasizes Jefferson the democratic writer and thinker, but he has not neglected the personal aspects of Jefferson the father husband, and friend. His long researches into Jefferson's character and the extraordinary times in which he lived results in a complete biography that fills the reader with a sense of Jefferson's living presence - the man who best personifies the spirit and hope that built this country in a period of severe testing. It is a spirit and hope that must now endure."