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Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time

Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time

Free Thoughts · Libertarianism.org

September 9, 201658m 59s

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Show Notes

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.

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