EVallant strikes home with John Grisham...he's sooo awesome.....I am re-reading some of his stuff now...I love it!
I am currently reading a biography that won't be everyone's cup of tea....but its so insightful to me...
Its by one of my favorite authors.....Jon Meachem....its called......"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power"
Its a riveting (at least to me) biography of one of my great heroes in Life...Thomas Jefferson....
Its easy to see when you read this how he could have been the chief architect behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Thomas Jefferson was such a feeling..... really human man....Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat.
The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown.
If you love history as I do...and have always wondered how our founding fathers thought.....and wanted to understand them simply as men...and as human....this book is a great start and Meachem is such a wonderful story teller and historian.
Meachem also wrote..."American Lion - Andrew Jackson in the White House"...which I also highly recommend, Jackson being another heo of mine.
Give them a shot.....I think you'll like
