A specialist in the history of the American Revolution and the early republic, Adrienne Koch earned her B.A. at New York University and her Masters degree and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Koch taught at Tulane, the University of California, and the University of Michigan, before being appointed professor of history at the University of Maryland. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim, Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations and the American Philosophical Society, Koch received a senior fellowship in the humanities in 1967 from the new National Endowment for the Humanities.
Koch has reviewed and edited much information about the life and activities of Thomas Jefferson. She has included in the work extracts of what others have said or written about Jefferson. The type size used in printing this book is smaller than what is normally used but there is much information here.