Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: Behind the Bastards

Episode: Part Three: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

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Jefferson and his time

by Dumas Malone

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"Very much so, the 1890s, Dumas Malone writes a six volume history of Thomas Jefferson. This is generally considered to be like the first definitive biography of Jefferson."
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Notes on the state of Virginia

by Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, Logan, James

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"No, at all. Yeah. Malone goes on to quote another line from Notes on the State of Virginia, which he describes as perhaps the most erudite summary of the evil of slavery: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God, that they are not to be violated, but with his wrath?"
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American Sphinx

by Joseph J. Ellis

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"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."
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American Sphinx

by Joseph J. Ellis

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"In American Sphinx, Ellis bo—chicken season, yeah!"
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American Sphinx

by Joseph J. Ellis

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"I'll quote first a passage from the original edition of American Sphinx published in 1996."
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American Sphinx

by Joseph J. Ellis

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"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."