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Article: Revising Jefferson; Did third president head 'slave power'.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2003
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Byline: Forrest McDonald, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Admirers of Thomas Jefferson generally steer clear of his presidency, for the merest glance at it indicates that he was by no means a Jeffersonian president. Those of us who study and write about him from a Hamiltonian perspective see much to admire, and little to disparage, in his first seven years in office, until the drastic degeneration that came with his efforts to enforce a misguided embargo on all American shipping during his last year in the White House.
As far as I am aware, no serious historian has, until now, attempted to depict Jefferson as the unremitting head of the "slave power" ...