Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power - Likewise Book Reviews

"I would summarize this book up as being like a good bottle of wine - something that needs to be savoured and enjoyed rather than simply guzzled down.<br/><br/>I found that I struggled at times to finish this lengthy book. It was an amazing history of one of America's founding fathers. The book was very good, and very, very detailed. <br/><br/>Thomas Jefferson was an extremely interesting man, one who was very gifted in many many areas of life, the least of which being his politics.<br/><br/>I would say that in 'comparision', he appears to have been almost as close as Benjamin Franklin in what he accomplished.<br/><br/>I will now be picking up, however, a biography on Adams and Hamilton so that I can hear the "other" side to the relationships between these three. I can't help but feel that I have only heard one side of the story and want for more detail."

"This is a very solid biography of Jefferson. While Meachum's prose doesn't draw me in completely, its still a very easy book to read, with some of the best notes I've ever seen. It also does a good job of treating Jefferson as a person...forthrightly examining his faults but also realizing his strengths."