Detailed account of this man� 2s remarkable life and the period during which he wrote the Declaration of Independence. A first draft of the document in included, as are Jefferson� 2s comments on the Articles of Confederation, his experiences as governor of Virginia, years in Paris [...]

Under normal circumstances, Thomas Jefferson would have had more than two months to prepare for his presidency. However, since the House of Representatives finally settled a tied electoral vote only on 17 February 1801, he had two weeks. This book, which covers the two-and-a-half-month period from t[...]