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About Derek Baxter
Derek Baxter is the author of In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father, in which he recounts his journeys through six countries, armed with a guide written by Jefferson in 1788. The Forgotten World War is his second book. He lives with his family in northern Virginia.


Taking notes among the falling leaves at the Palais Royale in Paris.

The author, playing Jefferson in his fourth grade play, and playing Jefferson as an (allegedly) grown man.
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