FRESH NEWS:

Booksigning

         Please join Alf J. Mapp, Jr. as he answers questions and signs several of his titles.  Thomas Jefferson will also be there to answer questions and sign the books.

• When:        Saturday, April 26th, 2008 from 2:00pm to 6:00pm Eastern time  (GMT -05:00)
• Where:       Colonial Williamsburg Bookstore
•                      Williamsburg, VA    23187
• Contact:    Bob Hill
•                     P.O. Box 1776
•                     Williamsburg, VA  23187
•                    1-800-446-9240
•                    marketplace@cwf.org 

 BOOKS

• "Thomas Jefferson: America's Paradoxical Patriot"
• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• ISBN: 0-7425-6017-1 / 978-0-7425-6017-8
• Date: Nov 28, 2007    

     This ground-breaking biography has been universally acclaimed as a landmark work on Thomas Jefferson's early and mature years. Mapp follows Jefferson from his birth in 1743 through the American Revolution and up until his inauguration as President of the United States in 1801. Along the way we rediscover Jefferson the student at William and Mary, the Virginia politician, and the foreign diplomat. In these pages, Mapp sheds new light on Jefferson's career and private life. The portrait is rich and full of a living complexity that defies the simple sketches often offered by those who would either canonize or demonize this reluctant founding father.

     "A monumental reassessment of Jefferson's character and impact."—Booklist

     "A life-recording, life-giving, entrancing and revealing study of a great American."—Richard Eberhart, Author of Long Reach: New and Uncollected Poems and the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

     "Alf J. Mapp probably best expresses why Jefferson remains so fascinating more than 150 years after his death and why he remains a continual challenge for the biographer . . . [A] reassessment that is not only convincing but also readable and enthralling."—Richmond Times-Dispatch

     "Elegantly written and overflowing with evocative detail. . . . a splendid work of history and biography."—Book-of-the-Month Club News

• "The Virginia Experiment: The Old Dominion's Role In the Making of America 1607 - 1781"
• Paperback: 612 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse   (Backinprint.com)
• ISBN: 0-595-38809-4
• Date: May 2006

     Superbe volume in conjuction with a trip would provide the best conceivable history lesson, a true appreciation of both the meager and  momentous beginnings of this nation. ___The Washington Post

      Lively and engrossing.  ___The (Louisville, KY) Courier-Journal 

      Mapp has a genius for narrarive history almost equal to Parkman himself...Fascinating...The reader will be entertained and enriched. ___Arthus Pierce Middleton, The Virginia Magazine of History

     A fine scholar, caring teacher, and voluminous communicator who has won several awards as a national educator. ___President Rosanne Runte, Old Dominion University 

       "What did America's Founders believe?  Delving once again into the nation's archives, Alf J. Mapp Jr. gives us a remarkably perceptive look at the beliefs, and the characters, of eleven of the architects of our democracy.  Here are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, George Washington, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Haym Salomon, considered as no previous author has presented them.  Each holds the stage as his story unfolds in the insightful and engaging prose readers expect from Mapp.  Few writers possess such a degree of familiarity with the Founders as this Virginia historian...  Who better to answer a question many ponder in this age of great interest in the Founders and in religion?  Even Mapp, who has spent years researching the era of the Founders, admits to finding some surprises.  Drawing upon their letters and other writings, testimony from their contemporaries, and documented information about their actions and associations, Mapp offers as reliable assessment as is attainable of the religious and philosophical beliefs of each of the men.  He demonstrates how circumstances in their lives may have molded their views and political position, and how their views changed over a lifetime.  Readers emerge with a keener appreciation of the special attributes of the Founders and what they contributed to the creation of our country...  Mapp's audience for this work should be large."  ___Pat Royal Perkinson, Pleasant Living Magazine

    "Alf Mapp, Jr. makes clear in The Faiths of Our Fathers, the Founders were dedicated to the cause of religious freedom.  And little wonder, when one considers the variety of their affiliations.  Among the 11 figures that Mr. Mapp discusses-including Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll, Haym Solomon-one may find deists, Anglicans, a Catholic, a Jew and even a Unitarian.  If the Founders were neither atheists nor fundamentalists, neither were they coreligionists.  Thus America became the first nation to disestablish religion and protect the free exercise of religion by law." __Terry Eastland in the Wall Street Journal

• "Bed of Honor"
• (historical fiction)
• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse.com
• ISBN: 0595006795
• September 2000

     "Sweeping historical fiction at its best.  Virginia after the Civil War; New Orleans, Paris, Rome, Washington, and politics; Southern belles, black and white; steamy passions and murder.  Appealingly realistic characters. Highly recommended."   _Theodore Taylor, author of The Stalker                                                          

     "A first-rate novel, elegantly crafted and thoroughly satisfying."  ___George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox

• "Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's Founding"
• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Madison Books
• ISBN: 1568331134
• March 1999