num_pages: 272
description: Leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a starlingly new and provocative interpretation of America's founding father, situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past 200 years.
language: English
title: Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
titlecomplete: Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
characters: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings
genres: Politics, American History, American, Presidents, Biography Memoir, Biography, Philosophy, History, American Revolution, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3581
publisher: HarperPress