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Article: The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson.(Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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WILLIAM HOWARD ADAMS, The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 354 pp., index, $30.00 cloth (ISBN 0-300-06903-0).
Jefferson's experiences in Paris during the 1780s have attracted the attention of scholars and others during recent years. James Ivory's not very successful 1995 film, Jefferson in Paris, and the scholarly work of George Green Shackleford, Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789,(1) have been joined by a marvelous volume by William Howard Adams. The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson is an intriguing and exceptionally well-written book and constitutes the finest study available of Jefferson's life during ...