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Article: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 6, 1997
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AMERICAN SPHINX: THE CHARACTER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. By Joseph Ellis. Knopf; 400 pages; $26.
A war of myth and memory
WASHINGTON, DC
Eclipsed for a century by Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton is making a comeback
FOR much of this century, America's history buffs have been fascinated most of all by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, secretary of state in George Washington's administration, and America's third president. Of all the founding fathers, Jefferson was the staunchest advocate of freedom. He disliked concentrations of power, both political and economic; he wanted a republic with a weak central government, ...