![]() ![]() Therein lies both the strength and weakness of Meacham’s book.īy telling Jefferson’s story only from Jefferson’s point of view, Meacham presents a fascinating window into the workings of this amazing man’s mind. Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham’s “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power” (now in paperback) presents our third president as he saw himself, the living embodiment of the patriot-statesman whose sole interest was defending the common man against those who would establish an American monarchy. Jefferson was born into great wealth, college educated and was, by temperament, a natural aristocrat, yet he fancied himself a yeoman farmer this is just one of the many contradictions found in the most contradictory of our great Founding Fathers. ![]() For the first 150 years of our nation’s history, it was almost mandatory for a candidate seeking elective office to present himself to voters as a “simple Jeffersonian democrat,” and no politician worked more tirelessly to burnish that image than Thomas Jefferson himself. ![]()
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