I didn't find this read quite as interesting as the Abigail Adams bio I just finished, but it was still quite interesting. I learned so much. There were a few pieces of information that were repeats from Abigail Adams (letters between John Adams and Jefferson, differences of opinion they had, etc.). I think the most interesting thing about Jefferson was how his life's practices often did not coincide with his strong beliefs. He's such a fascinating contradiction. A few examples include his position about the government being fiscally conservative, but that he himself was millions of dollars in debt (by today's equivalent) when he died; that he was strongly averse to slavery, but he did not set his slaves free except a few through his executed will. Most of the time this kind of dichotomy between beliefs and action would repel me, (particularly the spectacularly lucky Louisiana Purchase), but in Jefferson, I couldn't help myself. My heart just bled for him. It was hard to see his human frailties so plainly spelled out. I thought the content was very interesting for the most part, but there were a few things about the writing that made me CRAZY. For example, it mostly reads chronologically - but then Jefferson dies several chapters before the end. He then dies a second time a few chapters later. When the person about whom you're reading is "dead," you don't expect quite so much more book. Far worse than that were the endless dangling modifiers. I thought it was a very sloppy editing job.