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Article: Mr. Jefferson comes home.(Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson)(Book review)
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- January 14, 2008
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[Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson, Alan Pell Crawford, Random House, 312 pages]
THE EDIFYING SIGHT of Ron Paul calmly explaining the contemporary application of American Revolutionary principles to the smirking disbelief of the plastic men and 9/11 junkies of the Republican field calls to mind the reaction of the reprobates who unexpectedly encounter Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's film "Escape from New York": "Snake Plissken--I thought you were dead!"
Paul has re-introduced the Founders into American political discussion, whence they had been banished long ago by New Dealers who dismissed the "horse and buggy Constitution" ...