An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

In James Gabler's An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson: Dinner, Wine, and Conversation, you (the reader) travel back in time to 18th century Paris where you meet Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. In the comfort of Mr. Jefferson's residence you sit down with two of America's favorite Founding Fathers, and in response to your questions they tell in their own words the most interesting stories of their lives, stories that will delight anyone interested in history, wine, food, travel, politics, or the pleasure of a good read.


You share with them their travels through France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Germany, and America, their accomplishments, disappointments, embarrassments, early years, opinions of their contemporaries and political enemies, women in their lives, spies in their midst, slavery, religion, wine, food, social activities, intrigues, and much more.


Jefferson and Franklin were both wine lovers and wine is a topic of conversation throughout the evening including Jefferson's favorite wines and foods available today, Franklin's wine ventures, Jefferson's trip through southern France and Italy visiting the vineyards and Roman antiquities, tasting notes, the "Jefferson wine bottles" fraud, Jefferson's visits to the vineyards of Germany and Champagne, Philip Mazzei's Virginia vineyard experiment, etc.


The book's cover contains encomiums from Walter Isaacson and Robert M. Parker, Jr., and a bio of James Gabler, author of the award winning biography, Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson.