Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson

In 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to the sophisticated & exhilarating city of Paris, where he spent the next five years as minister from the new United States of America. This engaging book recreates in word & illustration the atmosphere & personalities of pre-Revolutionary Paris & reveals the profound impact they had on one of America's first transatlantic citizens. Author William Howard Adams takes the reader on an authoritative journey through the streets of the city & among the provocative characters in whose company the American diplomat thrived. He provides historians with a new & better context in which to reexamine Jefferson's role as a political partisan & ideological propagandist during the 1790s. B& W illustrations.Adams, William Howard is the author of 'Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422353448 and ISBN 1422353443.