Schubert best biography of thomas jefferson

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After nearly two months with Thomas Jefferson involving five biographies (ten books in total) and over 5, pages of reading, I still feel I know Jefferson less well than many other revolutionary-era figures&#;including some like Alexander Hamilton who I&#;ve only encountered through his numerous appearances in various presidential biographies.

But that&#;s part of the intriguing mystery that Jefferson presents &#; even the most dedicated Jefferson scholars such as Malone and Peterson have admitted difficulty in getting to know our third president on a personal level.

In his biography of Jefferson, Merrill Peterson acknowledged being mortified in confessing he still found Jefferson &#;impenetrable&#; after years of study.

Part of what seems to make Jefferson so complex is that he is not merely a two-dimensional figure.

The set of internal rules governing his behavior resembles a multi-variable differential equation