“Dinner at Mr. Jefferson’s: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening that Changed America”

This is a terrific history book about the early years of our government when Thomas Jefferson was the reluctant first Secretary of State, Alexander Hamilton was the brilliant and volatile Secretary of the Treasury, and George Washington was the first president.

Find out what the Founding Fathers did when they weren't being icons of their age, but just politicians trying to get things done in a contentious time.

Here is a good summary of the book: http://dekerivers.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/dinner-at-mr-jeffersons-why-cant-it-be-like-that-today-in-washington/

Two good books by Jeanette Walls

I have just read two very compelling books by Jeanette Walls, and I recommend them both, in this order: Half Broke Horses, A True Life Novel and The Glass Castle which is a memoir. Both are interesting stories of lives lived under hardships, and are not for the faint of heart.


http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Jeannette-Walls/19723841