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I wouldn’t trust Jefferson. He paid a muckraker journalist named Calendar to write disparaging (untrue) things about his ‘friend’ John Adams.

When later confronted about it by Adams, Jefferson did not admit to it (even though there was solid evidence that he was lying)

According to the author, he had convinced himself that he wasn’t in league with Calendar.

Calendar was also the person who broke the story that Jefferson slept with one of his slaves…

You reap what you sow!

The first chapter was a bit boring, but I stuck with it, and the next few chapters didn’t disappoint. The last chapter had me flagging a bit, but in the end I thought this was a decent book, and I’ll be reading more Revolutionary books in the future thanks to this one!