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Article: Thomas Jefferson.(Thomas Jefferson: Author of America)(Book review)
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- March 22, 2008
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Thomas Jefferson
Author of America
By Christopher Hitchens
HarperCollins Publishers, 2005
188 pp. Cloth, $19.95
Christopher Hitchens, whose recent drift from the left has caused no little anxiety among former comrades, has used the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, among other venues, to retroactively (or is it simply anachronistically?) lay Thomas Jefferson's blessing on the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war for the purposes of exporting democracy. Now, claiming Jefferson's imprimatur is nothing new in American history, but only a tortured reasoning could see in Jefferson's ...