That letter It flames verbatim. It is real, sent to college friends. It sets fire to this fiction. No one knew it then, but the world will soon know it... This novel comes as close to reality as the author can make it. Some of it happened, all of it is possible. No one knew in 1743 that five newborn lungs, one of which was Thomas Jefferson, were sucking in the old air of monarchy and breathing out the new air of revolution. Few know now, but many will, that new lungs are breathing a new revolution, the Second American Revolution, unfold...