JULY 2023 FREE BOOK!

We have an amazing book for you this July, a very appropriate work for the month that we in the United States celebrate our Independence Day. Written by Fred Kaplan, a well-known and much celebrated biographer and poet, HIS MASTERLY PEN, A BIOGRAPHY OF JEFFERSON THE WRITER will take its place as one of the most important and beautifully written biographies of Thomas Jefferson ever produced.

From the back cover, “The accomplished biographer of great writers, Fred Kaplan turns his keen insights on an author usually thought of as something else: revolutionary, president, architect, and slaveholder. HIS MASTERLY PEN reveals Thomas Jefferson’s genius for deploying words to persuade, inspire, manipulate, and deceive others. In the process, Kaplan helps us understand how the author of our most dazzling declaration [the italics are Sue’s] could generate so much controversy in his lifetime as well as ours.”

This book captivated me. If you are building a library of important books, HIS MASTERLY PEN deserves prominence.

To have your name included in our Wednesday, July 12 drawing, just answer this question. Were you required to memorize a portion of the Declaration of Independence when you were in school? A yes or no answer is fine!

Happy Reading!

Sue