American Sphinx, The Character of Thomas Jefferson written by Joseph Ellis is about the life of one unique past President of the United States of America. It starts out about his childhood in Virginia although they do not go into great detail about his young life. He does let us in on a little bit of an insight dealing with Jefferson and how he got where he did in a timely order. The book starts out telling us ... election the opponent Aaron Burr had the exact same number of votes as did Thomas Jefferson. As stated in the Constitution, the House of Representatives had to break the tie. Someho...

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... have done for our country. The author seemed to be pretty objective, being such a well-educated writer he wasn't taking sides as but he was more content of what these men did for our country. If there were any objections it would be for Thomas Jefferson, Ellis has written the book American Sphinx that is the Character of Thomas Jefferson. In that book as well as the one you could say he "talks ... up Jefferson" more. Other than that he tried to convey everyone as equal with equal contributions. In this book there were numerous references to what Ellis used to ... get all his statics fr...

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