Thomas Jefferson Author:Rita Thievon Mullin One of thr world's greatest thinkers, Thomas Jefferson, is widely known as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the newly formed United States of America, a man whose ideas helped shape the values of liberty and democracy on which America was founded. But he was much more than that. Follow in the foots... more »teps of this brave and zealous patriot from his early days in the Virginia countryside and his years as a champion of the American Revolution, through his many different and fascinating callings as politician, lawyer, farmer, architect,inventor and even secret agent.« less