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An illustrated biography tells the life of the third president of the United States, a book-lover, self-taught architect, and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Examines the life and times of the multifaceted man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the third president of the United States.

Presents a concise account of the life of Thomas Jefferson, discussing the private world and public career of the U.S. statesman.

"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many...