Podcast: Behind the Bastards
Episode: Part Three: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Jefferson and his time
Buy on Amazon"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."
Notes on the state of Virginia
Buy on Amazon"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?"
American Sphinx
Buy on Amazon"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."
American Sphinx
Buy on Amazon"I'll quote first a passage from the original edition of American Sphinx published in 1996."
American Sphinx
Buy on Amazon"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."