Hello friends, I must say it is self informative and the authors conversions of his learned interpretations into historical facts are amazing . whine its read is not easy its very academic, lecture like and hard languages, I read sphinx the character of Thomas Jefferson is a 1996 book published by Joseph Ellis a professor of history at Mount Hollyhock college. it won the 1997 National book awarded for nonfiction I must say this book all about the history of america.