Mentioned In Podcasts – Book details

Mentions in Episodes:

• Episode: Part Three: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
  Podcast: Behind the Bastards
  

  So the ideological incoherence between some of the words and most of the actions of this prophet of liberty is really well described in Ellis's book, American Sphinx, which is kind of written to explain this part of Jefferson.
• Episode: Part Three: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
  Podcast: Behind the Bastards
  

  In American Sphinx, Ellis bo—chicken season, yeah!
• Episode: Part Three: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
  Podcast: Behind the Bastards
  

  I'll quote first a passage from the original edition of American Sphinx published in 1996.
• Episode: Part Three: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
  Podcast: Behind the Bastards
  

  One of those things— I don’t entirely disagree with this; in American Sphinx, Ellis calls it revolutionary realism and compares Jefferson's thinking to Lenin and Mao.
• Episode: Part One: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
  Podcast: Behind the Bastards
  

  In 'American Sphinx,' Ellis describes Jefferson as turning into kind of a fundamentalist on this point.
• Episode: Part One: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
  Podcast: Behind the Bastards
  

  I'm going to quote from 'American Sphinx' here: In Jefferson's account, a dedicated group of loyal Bostonians risked arrest and persecution to destroy a cargo of contraband.
• Episode: Part One: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
  Podcast: Behind the Bastards
  

  Now the whole point of that book by Ellis, 'American Sphinx,' the reason he calls it 'American Sphinx' is that Jefferson is really hard to pin down about this and other stuff.