books.google.com - Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate...https://books.google.com/books/about/American_Sphinx.html?id=bB3RK78fbBsC&q=meant&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAmerican Sphinx