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Article: AMERICAN VIRTUES: THOMAS JEFFERSON ON THE CHARACTER OF A FREE PEOPLE.(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- June 1, 2000
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AMERICAN VIRTUES: THOMAS JEFFERSON ON THE CHARACTER OF A FREE PEOPLE. By JEAN M. YARBROUGH. University Press of Kansas. 256 pp. $35.
If, during his thirty years of service as revolutionary publicist, Governor, Congressman, diplomat, Secretary of State, Vice President, and two-term President, Thomas Jefferson had done nothing except acquire the Louisiana Territory--a piece of this continent larger than the whole United States at the time, purchased from Napoleon for $15 million--he would be remembered as a great statesman. But he did much more. With James Madison, he organized a new political party that bridged disparate regions and branches of government; he ...