Martha Jefferson is the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson s greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young age of thirty-three in 1782. Drawing on a wealth of newly probed sources including family letters, documents, and the handwritten notes left by Jefferson s famed biographer, Dumas Malone William G. Hyland Jr. captures the charm, sophistication, and grace, as well as a profound sense of history, of this little known and elusive figure who, until now, has been a mere footnote to the story of America s founding. Hyland brings us a conflicted and...