Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

This New York Times bestseller offers "an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all" (New York Review of Books).

In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal's splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of eac...