JEFFERSON: A NOVEL
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 055309470X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Intoxicated by Paris and awed by his patron, Short is somewhat out of his depth, dabbling in the art of biography while struggling with his own conflicting personal ambitions. . Some paradoxical aspects of Jefferson--notably his attitudes toward slavery, women and religion--are only cursorily explored. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Although Byrd includes interesting details of Jefferson's daily regimen and associations in Paris, the narrative shifts awkwardly from Short's voice to a third-person narrator who reveals the thoughts of Short and others, but never those of Jefferson. From Publishers Weekly Thomas Jefferson remains annoyingly distant from the reader in this disappointing novelization of his years in turbulent, pre-revolut
Jefferson As You've Not Seen Him During His Time In Paris Through happenstance, I've read three of Max Byrd's novels in reverse order. The first (for me) being "Grant", then "Jackson", and finally this book, "Jefferson". At first, I felt that Byrd's books got better with each novel but toward the end of "Jefferson", I began to alter my view. It is a wonderful account of fictionalized h. dgc@cmaster.com JBCheaney said The novel is as maddening as the man. Jefferson is a portrait of the most enigmatic man in American history, framed in the gilt-edged, multi-faceted setting of Paris just before the French Revolution. The subject matter is as rich as Virginia loam, and on it the author raises a bountiful crop of period detail and striking observation. The subtitle of the book, howev. brooding and smutty A Customer Byrd has done an excellent job of putting the French Revolution into the context of the American Revolution. I enjoyed the perspectives of the impressionable young Short and his master Jefferson on the situation in Paris leading up to the Revolution. However, this book never quite takes flight, and Byrd devolves into sordid desc
In the magnificent tradition if Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr, Max Byrd reveals a Thomas Jefferson we've never met before It is 1784, and Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis Xvi and Marie-Antoinette had just arrived in Paris-a city adrift in intrigue, upheaval, and temptation that will challenge his principles, incite his passions, and change Thomas Jefferson forever Through the eyes of his impressionable young secretary, William Short, we watch as the future president builds his dream of an America with fellow patriots John Adams and Ben Franklin, and as he struggles between political ambition and an unexpected crisis of the heart with a woman who has the power to destroy him. And we discover-behind the face the complex Virginian show the world-an enigmatic statesman who fights for individual liberty even as he keeps the slave, who champions freewill even a he denies it to his daughters, and who fights for individual liberty even as he keeps slaves, who champions free will even as he denied it to his daughters, and who holds men to the highest standards of honor-even as he embarks on a shadowy double life of his ownFrom the Paperback edition.