Hitchens jefferson biography book

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America is a short 2005 biography of Founding FatherThomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), by author, journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens.

It was released as a part of HarperCollins' Eminent Lives series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures."^[1][2]

The book is dedicated to founder and retired CEO of C-SPAN, Brian Lamb: "For Brian Lamb, a great Virginian and a great American, a fine democrat as well as a good republican, who has striven for an educated electorate"^[3]

Reception

The book has been praised by critics.

Ted Widmer of The New York Times wrote, "Hitchens brings a refreshing perspective to the task, both in that he has not written at length about the founding moment and in that he sees Jefferson from the perspective of a