An Intimate History

This challenging new biography is a rich, three-dimensional portrait that dares to explore the shadowy relationship between Thomas Jefferson's inner life and his public life, including the beautiful quadroon slave, Sally Hemings, and his liaison with the fascinating painter, Maria Cosway.

Where others have focused on Jefferson and the life of the mind, Fawn Brodie has concentrated on Jefferson and the life of the heart, showing for the first time the largely unknown man of feeling and passion.

Mrs. Brodie has also examined Jefferson's ambivalent feelings about revolution, race, religion, power and love-made new discoveries, settled old controversies and written an exciting work of great force and imagination.

Author:  Fawn M. Brodie

Publisher: Bantam Books

Released Date: 1975

ISBN: 9780553273359