Friday, April 22, 2016

Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter Onuf - Most Blessed of the Patriarchs

Another book on Thomas Jefferson?  Yes, here we go again.  It seems appropriate at this time with all of the talk about removing that slave owner Andrew Jackson from the 20 dollar bill.  The author of the Declaration of Independence was also a slave owner.  So was George Washington.  Where does it all stop?

To deal with someone as capacious and tricky as Thomas Jefferson you need a theme.  The theme here is to consider TJ a "republican patriarch.'

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