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: : : I didn't find this book very convincing. I thought the author began with a thesis and then stretched every point until it fit. I especially wonder about the author's ertion that Jefferson was not affectionate to his family. There are numerous accounts of him playing on the floor with his grandchildren and I don't know how he could hve shown any more affection to his daughter Patsy.... : : : Similarities between a Kansas teen's behavior and : : Thomas Jefferson's unexplained idiosyncrasies : : prompted a father's search and a startling : : discovery: the Sage of Monticello had : : characteristics of high-functioning autism -- : : Asperger's Syndrome -- well within the range of : : modern diagnostic criteria. Diagnosing Jefferson : : explains the ways this condition affected : : Jefferson's beliefs, decisions, and actions. : : Thomas Jefferson may elude accurate : : summarization, but authors have tried. This : : appears near the end of Diagnosing Jefferson: : : A Nineteenth-Century biographer, James Parton, offered us a summary of Thomas Jefferson : : as a man who “could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try : : a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play a violin.” : : My Jefferson study reveals a brilliant and talented man who made love to women, tippled : : his wine, wore funny clothes, abhorred making speeches, fled to seclusion, brooded and wept, : : sidestepped disputes, waffled on race, obeyed dumb routines, believed fiction real, endured : : painful losses, and finally went broke. : : Copyright 1998, 2000, Norman M. Ledgin

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