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Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time
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Why are Americans so fascinated with our third President? What did Jefferson’s contemporaries think of him?
Robert McDonald joins us this week to talk about the life and ideas of Thomas Jefferson.
Show Notes and Further Reading
McDonald’s book is Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time (2016).
There is a conception that politics was more civil at the turn of the 19th century; this Reason.tv video proves otherwise.
Robert McDonald joins us this week to talk about the life and ideas of Thomas Jefferson.
Show Notes and Further Reading
McDonald’s book is Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time (2016).
There is a conception that politics was more civil at the turn of the 19th century; this Reason.tv video proves otherwise.
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