American Sphynx: Thomas Jefferson and the American Contradiction
He wrote "all men are created equal" — and owned more than 600 people over the course of his lifetime. He championed small government — then doubled the size of the nation with a land deal he couldn't constitutionally justify. He claimed to despise political parties — then built one of the most effective political organizations of his era. Thomas Jefferson is America's most contradictory founder, and in this episode, host Michael Bahr digs into American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis. What do we do with a man whose ideals were…
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