Winthrop Jordan
Blood and Soil
Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 By Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University Press, 411 pp. $45) READ MORE >>
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson a film by Ken Burns (PBS) The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O'Brien (University of Chicago, 367 pp., $29.95) Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed (University Press of Virginia, 279 pp., $29.95) American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, 351 pp., $26) I. READ MORE >>