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Brawny, self-schooled Peter [Jefferson] had taught this eldest son to be one of the best horsemen in Virginia and to love the wilderness, but also to know and love the library, source of inestimable knowledge.
Thomas Jefferson more than fulfilled all of his expectations. For this brilliant son not only exceeded his father in learning---adding law, music, architecture, literature, philosophy, geography, and statesmanship to his many realms of accomplishment---but he never forgot his father's dream of westward expansion.
With the apparent ease only possible to a diligent historical researcher and a master of our language, John Dos Passos has written one of the finest biographies of Jefferson ever prepared for young readers---swiftly paced, vivid, and informed. In the final chapter he shows how Jefferson as President fulfilled that dream of his father to organize an exploratory expedition to cross the entire continent, up the Missouri, over the Great Divide, and down the Columbia to the far Pacific.
—from the dust jacket
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