Top Highlights

• John Chester Miller’s The Wolf by the Ears was for me the most various and illuminating account of the slavery question.
• On the much-neglected subject of the Barbary war, I found myself gratefully dependent upon Jefferson’s War,
• Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family, by Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman, is one of the most striking pieces of Americana ever published.
• May it be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores...