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Ellis again. Jefferson compartmentalized. Pretty good for what it is.

Without getting directly into his own writings?

I accidentally into-ed him with Joseph Ellis' American Sphinx. He's a bit center-right like David McCullough, but fair. He makes plenty of good suggested reading in the notes.

>>3136443
Why? I don't get it.

>>3136387
What books do you recommend? I've only read American Sphinx so far, and can you recommend a Madison book?

>>3076566
Agree

>>2947407
You have that edition? If so, what do the 32 plates look like? my copy doesn't have them.

Pic: Almost finished with this.
99.99% great read.

So good.

/r/ing similar James Madison goodness while I'm at it.

From American Sphinx - JJ Ellis. Chapter 4, page 182
[Reaction to a portion of President Jefferson's first inaugural address]

But Jefferson did not really mean what Hamilton and all the other commentators thought they heard him say. part of the problem was actually a matter of translation. In the version of his address printed in the National Intelligencer and then released to the newspapers throughout the country, the key passage reads: "We are all Republicans---we are all Federalists." By Capitalizing the operative terms, the printed version had Jefferson making a gracious statement about the overlapping goals of the two political parties. But in the handwritten version of the speech that Jefferson delivered , the key words were not capitalized. Jefferson was therefore referring not the common ground shared by the two parties but to the common belief, shared by all American citizens, that a republican form of government and a federal bond among the states were most preferable. Since one would be hard pressed to discover a handful of American citizens who disagreed with this observation, his statement was more a political platitude that an ideological concession. The impression that Jefferson publicly retracted his previous statement about the party conflict as a moral struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, as it turned out, badly mistaken.

You see kids? You need to use your caps properly.

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>>2896824
Why does a pedo casual want to know?

Must get to this one soon

>>2717028
I've been collecting bios from key players from the Revolutionary War. Have this one, should be good, but I haven't read it yet.

>>2645101
Rousseau. He had his good points I'm sure, but all I've read from his actually is from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, where Wollstonecraft rips on him and his dim views of how ladies should behave.

Or you could get one of those Jefferson books that goes into all his inconsistencies
(I have this one, but have yet to open it)

>>2168677
There's good bio shading of his youth and the last chapter is about the rest of his reign. Pretty fair portrait I think. Hope you enjoy the book.

For contrast. Thomas Jefferson. Not at all brutish, but looked at cockeyed in today's world for what he was like.

Opinions: Is this the best/better biography of Jefferson?