Episode 151: Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time (with Robert McDonald)

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2016 · News & Politics

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Robert McDonald joins us for a discussion about the life of author, musician, inventor, architect, philosopher and statesman Thomas Jefferson.

Why are Americans so fascinated with our third President? What did Jefferson’s contemporaries think of him?

Show Notes and Further Reading

McDonald’s book is Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time (2016).
https://www.amazon.com/Confounding-Father-Jeffersons-Jeffersonian-America/dp/0813938961

There is a conception that politics was more civil at the turn of the 19th century; this Reason.tv video proves otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI

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