About the Author

William Howard Adams is also the author of The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson, published by Yale University Press.

Reviews

"This forgotten founder was as large and multifaceted as the Revolution itself. Marvellously idiosyncratic, he had a fiery imagination that went along with his unabashed taste for women. Alternately ambivalent and industrious, he was a cranky political genius. William Howard Adams's biography is essential reading." Andrew Burstein, author of The Passions of Andrew Jackson