... never been seen before by historians and shows Jefferson as being a humorous and an uncannily witty individual. 2 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 ... back the value of this book is that the dates of the majority of the events in Jefferson's life are no where to be found. Also, Peterson's failure to include footnotes takes away somewhat from the overall value o...

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