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Thursday Dec 06, 2012
We've been here before
Thursday Dec 06, 2012
Thursday Dec 06, 2012
If we were talk about a time of bitter angry partisanship, flawed leaders lusting after women and power, worried perhaps more about their legacy than their constituents. Politicians who were accused of being pragmatic rather than idealistic. Who sometimes did care about ideas, but to the determent of good politics. We might easily be talking about current members of Congress, President Obama, President Clinton or Jack Kennedy. In fact, we’d also be talking about Thomas Jefferson. The man whose idealization has in many ways clouded how we should see and understand the better nature of politics...even today.
Pulitzer prize winning biographer and journalist Jon Meacham, in his new book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
gets to the heart of who Thomas Jefferson really dined with, when he dined alone. My conversation with Jon Meacham:
My conversation with Jon Meacham:
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