Superb volume.detailed and very entertaining.Reading this volume in conjunction with a trip would provide the best conceivable history lesson, a true appreciation of both the meager and momentous beginnings of this nation.
-"The Washington Post" Lively and engrossing
-The (Louisville, KY) "Courier-Journal" Mapp has a genius for narrative history almost equal to Parkman himself.Fascinating.The reader will be entertained and enriched.
-Arthur Pierce Middleton "The Virginia Magazine of History" A fine scholar, caring teacher, and voluminous communicator who has won several awards...

In this book, the author cuts through historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of 11 of America's founding fathers. (Motivation)

This ground-breaking biography has been acclaimed as a landmark work on Thomas Jefferson's early and mature years. Mapp follows Jefferson from his birth in 1743 through the American Revolution and up until his inauguration as President of the United States in 1801. Along the way we rediscover Jefferson the student at William and Mary, the Virginia politician, and the foreign diplomat. In these pages, Mapp sheds new light on Jefferson's career and private life. The portrait is rich and full of a living complexity that defies the simple sketches often offered by those who would either canonize...

In this intriguing book, the bestselling author of "Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity" explores three periods in Western history during which creativity exploded by staggering leaps and bounds: the Renaissance in Florence, Elizabethan England, and the time of America's founding. Photos.

Eagerly awaited by readers of Alf Mapp's best-selling Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, this final volume follows Jefferson from his inauguration as President in 1801 to his death at the age of 83 on July 4, 1826. It embraces the eight years as Chief Executive in which he doubled the size of the United States by his daring Louisiana Purchase, sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on one of the world's greatest expeditions of exploration, and challenged the formidable Chief Justice John Marshall with a major program of judicial reform. It proves the falseness of the...