Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-06-06
Books mentioned on Part Two: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites
Robert and Prop talk about Jefferson's embarrassing history as a war leader and how he helped invent scientific racism. See omnystudio.
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Discussed“Yeah, um, and here again, one of the people that he owned acted to protect his absent owner from the book Master of the Mountain. When the raiders swarmed into the house at Monticello, it quickly became apparent that once again Jefferson had eluded them, but they knew he could not be very far off.”
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Notes on the state of Virginia
Notes on the State of Virginia is a 1785 book by Thomas Jefferson that offers observations on the natural history, laws, and customs of Virginia, serving as his only published full-length book.
Discussed“Jefferson headed out in a place called Poles Forest and did what he was good at, he wrote; the work he did on the run would later make up his only published book, Notes on the State of Virginia. And if you are a poli-sci student, you just shuddered a little bit; you had to read this son of a”
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