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"In tracing the Virginian's trips throughout Europe, Shackelford captures Jefferson's intellectual vitality, his cultured interests, and the esteem in which he was held by so many of those who came in contact with him....Shackelford's splendid account of Jefferson abroad captures what he was truly all about. The seemingly disparate strands of Jefferson's interests, from architecture to music to natural history to politics, were united in his abiding faith in human reason."Professor George Green Shackleford is the author of 'Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789', published 1998 under ISBN 9780801859502 and ISBN 0801859506.
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