Understanding Thomas Jefferson

The title is seriously misleading as this book is mainly about Jefferson's relationships with women and his postcript really doesn't make sense. The book is short so there wasn't too much waste of time, but I would have picked other books if I had known.

Written shortly after DNA testing seemed to "prove" Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one (possibly all 6) of slave Sally Hemings's children, Halliday has sex on the brain. Purporting to be about all aspects of Jefferson's personality, Halliday keeps coming back to the Hemings thing over and over.

I started out very excited by this book. Based on my readings, I was convinced that Jefferson had had a liason with Hemmings, unquestionably based on the circumstanital evidence.