Understanding Thomas Jefferson
 

Understanding Thomas Jefferson

by E. M. Halliday, E.M. Halliday

Thomas Jefferson's life seems to be riddled with contradictions: he wrote "all men are created equal" yet owned hundreds of slaves; he feared mixing the races yet fathered children with a partially black slave. Joseph J. Ellis took this Jefferson-as-enigma approach in American Sphinx, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1997. E.M. Halliday, however, argues that "the 'sphinx'... (read more)

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Hey, he's Jefferson, author of the the US Declaration of Independence. Statesman, slave master.

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