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This book is about the Thomas Jefferson. It tells the fatherless boy of fourteen, the hard working young scholar, the young lawyer in backwoods Virginia, and the young diplomat in Paris. Jefferson suffered the hard times of youth. His first love, Rebecca Burwell, ditched him for a fellow student. In 1768 he offered love to Betsey Walker, the attractive wife of a friend who was away on political business. As a middle-aged single he broke his wrist in Paris while showing off in front of Maria Cosway, the wife of a portrait painter. In short, Jefferson had all the wooing skills of Clarence Thomas. A longtime senior editor of American Heritage, E. M. Halliday is the author of a memoir of the poet John Berryman and an account of the Allied invasion of Soviet of articles for The New Yorker. It is know that he lives in New York City. Mr. Halliday talked about his book Un