some historians have said he stood tall on the heights of head inlo with hisd the halth clouds but james madia had the amount amazingi ability to bring him back to reality. the great streamer andeat imagination and madison as a great legal thinker had a wonderful relationo between them and they encouragedat l each other and as a great legalalso mind jefferson was the beauchemin the inspiration for the book was the expansion then to the west after the settlement of kentucky my publisher invited me to talk about a abo biography and decided there were was those as is said to myi publisher and editor the founding father who was most concerned about expandingco the country and learning about the mountains and r rivers and the of languages was jefferson. the man who acquired the west in mexico city was jefferson's grandson and law and my publisher said it is "all in the family." [laughter] so we decided on a book with that beginning and in then to link the biographies of jackson in houston rocket and pulled andchousc winfield scott as the story unfolds deciding to end with the nemesis the president