In the paperback edition of the critically acclaimed hardcover, bestselling
author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills explores Thomas Jefferson's final
and favorite achievement, the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is one of America's greatest architectural treasures
and one of Thomas Jefferson's proudest achievements. At his request his
headstone says nothing of his service as America's first Secretary of State or
its third President. It says simply: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author
of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for
Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." For this political
genius was a supremely gifted artist as well, and