5/23/2023 0 Comments Thomas jefferson by jon meacham![]() Meacham, however, is quick to remind his reader that the Master of Monticello was interested in much more than just the trivialities of political tribalism. Thomas Jefferson the Art of Power by Jon Meacham available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. At first blush, this might seem odd considering that Thomas Jefferson was a prime mover in the creation of our nation’s first political party. In so doing, he issues a none-too-subtle condemnation of the Washington gridlock and political intransigence which characterizes our current age. ![]() In his book, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham uses our third president to promote a message of bipartisanship and across-the-aisle problem solving. During the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (using great political slight-of-hand), used Jeffersons’s advocacy of ‘negative liberty’ as the philosophical basis for his Four Freedoms platform. During the Civil War, both sides enlisted Jefferson’s aid his opinions on states’ rights gave rhetorical ammunition to the South while Abraham Lincoln used the language of the Declaration to inveigh against the spread of slavery. ![]() ![]() Ever since his death on July 4th, 1826 (50 years to the day after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, I might add), subsequent generations of Americans have appropriated the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson in order to advance agendas and justify arguments. ![]()
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