New York: Bantam Books, November 1993. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean, but clipped. and light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 424 pages. 24 cm.

It is 1784, and Jefferson, the newly appointed United States Ambassador to the court of Louis XVI had just arrived in Paris-a city adrift in intrigue, upheaval, and temptation that will challenge his principles, incite his passions, and change Thomas Jefferson forever. Through the eyes of his young secretary, William Short, we watch as the future president builds his dream of an America with fellow patriots John Adams and Ben Franklin, and as he struggles between political ambition and an unexpected crisis of the heart with a woman who has the power to destroy him. And we discover--behind the face the complex Virginian show the world--an enigmatic statesman who fights for individual liberty even as he keeps slaves, who champions free will even a he denies it to his daughters, and who holds men to the highest standards of honor even as he embarks on a shadowy double life of his own.

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Max Byrd is the acclaimed author of Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, Shooting the Sun , and many other novels. An authority on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history, Byrd lives in Davis, California.

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Bookseller: Books of the World (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000003449
Title: Jefferson : A Novel
Author: Max Byrd
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 055309470X
ISBN 13: 9780553094701
Publisher: Bantam Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: November 1993
Pages: 424 pages
Size: 8vo
Keywords: fiction, biographical, historical, diplomats, presidents, United States, France, Thomas Jefferson
Bookseller catalogs: History; International Relations; Fiction; Biographies; France;

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