Peterson’s point of view is a very honest one. Peterson does slightly favor Jefferson in this book, but at same time bestows criticism during Jefferson’s darker days; the Embargo and insightful feud with Hamilton. It seems that Peterson urges the importance of Jefferson’s accomplishments in the scientific and architectural world as much as he does during Jefferso

Although, Main agrees with a majority of Peterson’s work, he does condemn him by not trying to draw a clear distinction between the different groups of Federalists and the programs of Adams and Hamilton in 1798. As I and other reviewers have said, “Historians, if not the general reader, will resent the absence of footnotes. This is no popular biography, no brief sketch, but over a thousand solid pages of scholarship” (Apr. 1971). Main agrees that this book is missing some aspects that would have made it perfect, but concludes that, “this is a fine biography” (Apr. 1971).

The author’s use of sources is a novel onto itself. Peterson fails to use footnotes during the biography and leaves some reviewers scratching their heads onto why he would do this. He chooses to include a bibliography that is thirty-six pages long. Some of these pieces Peterson choose included works

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