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Authors: Max Byrd

Jefferson:
Another intellectual weakness was common to my time. We often spoke of the “Head versus the Heart,” reason versus feeling. In Paris I wrote a dialogue for a lady with that very title. I don’t remember which side prevailed. Perhaps neither. Perhaps it ended with inaction, indecision.

Grant:
The sentence was, “All men are created equal.”

Jefferson:
Which I have very nearly come to believe.

Novels By Max Byrd

SHOOTING THE SUN

GRANT

JACKSON

JEFFERSON

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MAX BYRD
is the author of the acclaimed historical novels
Jefferson
,
Jackson
, and
Grant
. An authority on eighteenth-century literature, Byrd makes his home in Davis, California, where he is at work on his next novel.

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