In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father Baxter Derek
In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father Baxter Derek A debut that combines historical nonfiction with travel books, for fans of Bill Bryson and…
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In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father Baxter Derek
A debut that combines historical nonfiction with travel books, for fans of Bill Bryson and Rinker Buck, In Pursuit of Jefferson is the story of an American on a journey through Europe, following the epic trail of Thomas Jefferson.A controversial founding father. And a completely unique trip through Europe.In 1784, Thomas Jefferson was a broken man. A man ready for a change.
And to do that, he traveled. Reeling from the loss of his wife and humiliated from a political scandal during the Revolutionary war, he needed to remake himself. Traipsing through Europe, Jefferson saw and learned as much as he could, ultimately bringing his knowledge home to a young America.
There, he would rise to power and shape a nation.More than two hundred years later, Derek Baxter, a devotee of American history, stumbles on an obscure