Michael Kranish
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Michael Kranish is the author of “Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War” (Oxford, 2010). He can be reached at www.michaelkranish.com

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'Flight From Monticello': Writing a Fresh Take on Thomas Jefferson's Darkest Days

Posted March 9, 2010 | 13:16:45 (EST)

Books can spring from a single nugget of information. I was reading a revolutionary war history when I came across a brief reference to the traitor Benedict Arnold's invasion of Virginia while Thomas Jefferson was governor. Five years after writing the Declaration of Independence that helped set the revolutionary war...

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