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An exhaustive biography of the third president’s life is difficult to fit into one volume, and Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation certainly could have been broken up into multiple lengthy books.

This work of nonfiction is an excellent resource for nearly every aspect of Jefferson’s public and private lives. Beginning with his early life in mid-eighteenth century Albemarle County, the esteemed historian Merrill D.

Peterson walks readers through Jefferson’s law training under George Wythe and the attentiveness to detail invested in the planning and construction of Monticello. Based largely on the ideas of Italian architect Adrian Palladio, this project’s initial phase took over a decade to complete.

The desire to maintain a natural aesthetic in Monticello’s layout was a common thread running throughout its planning.

Considering the book’s one thousand plus page length, there are not many aspects of Jefferson's early,