I finished reading:

"Thomas Jefferson an Intimate History" written by Fawn M. Brodie. 676 pages.

This is the 60th book I've finished this year.  21,844 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

This was a very interesting book and very pertinent with the election in the US so close.   I think if Jefferson saw what his Republican Party had come to he would be extremely angry.   The ideals that made him create it and become it's first President have been eroded and evaporated.   In fact, his, views and that of the party in 1801 are way more like the Democrat party now, and even it could be argued to the left of that.

-Richard