| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson. By Kevin J. Hayes. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 738 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-19-530758-0.)

In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes, a professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma, applies his expertise in print culture and the histories of the book and of reading to Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most assiduous bibliophile in American history. Hayes's Jefferson is a major figure in American literature as well as in the histories of American government, politics, diplomacy, and law. Hayes sees Jefferson as a nexus point on a dense web of intellectual, bibliographic, and educational connections, and he traces that web's scope and complexities with patience, skill, and sagacity.

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