This was the first book I bought after I decided to collect and read in turn at least one biography of each US President. I paid $8.50 for it in a used book store in Santa Rosa, California and I do not regret the purchase. It is an unusal treatment of an important life, as the chapter headings will indicate: Family Relations, Physique, Education, Relations with the Fair sex, Farmer and Proprietor, Master and Employer, Social Life, Tastes and Amusements, Friends, Enemies, Soldier, and Citizen and Office-Holder. The author tried to help his reader to touch and feel the man. The overiding impression I got was that of a very honest person who felt a responsibilty to serve even though he sometimes would rather not have. I gave the book three stars because of its simplistic and unusual approach. ( )