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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power AUTH-11548556 Despite his best efforts toIn "Negro President" the Pulitzer Prize winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and "prods readers to appreciate essential aspects of our distressed but well intentioned representative democracy" (Chicago Tribune). In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three fifths