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Democracy's Muse - How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead (Paperback)
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Democracy's Muse - How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead (Paperback)
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In political speech, Thomas Jefferson is the eternal flame. No
other member of the founding generation has served the agendas of
both Left and Right with greater vigor. When Franklin Roosevelt
dedicated the iconic Jefferson Memorial on the founder's two
hundredth birthday, in 1943, he declared the triumph of liberal
humanism. Harry Truman claimed Jefferson as his favorite president,
too. And yet Ronald Reagan was as great a Jefferson admirer as any
Democrat. He had a go-to file of Jefferson's sayings and enshrined
him as a small-government conservative. So, who owns Jefferson -
the Left or the Right? The unknowable yet irresistible third
president has had a tortuous afterlife, and he remains a fixture in
today's culture wars. Pained by Jefferson's slaveholding, Democrats
still regard him highly. Until recently he was widely considered by
many African Americans to be an early abolitionist. Libertarians
adore him for his inflexible individualism, and although he
formulated the doctrine of separation of church and state,
Christian activists have found intense religiosity between the
lines in his pronouncements. The renowned Jefferson scholar Andrew
Burstein lays out the case for both ""Democrat"" and ""Republican""
Jefferson as he interrogates history's greatest shape-shifter, the
founder who has inspired perhaps the strongest popular emotions. In
this timely and powerful book, Burstein shares telling insights, as
well as some inconvenient truths, about politicized Americans and
their misappropriations of the past, including the concoction of a
""Jeffersonian"" stance on issues that Jefferson himself could
never have imagined. Here is one book that is more about ""us""
than it is about Jefferson. It explains how the founding
generation's most controversial partisan became essential to
America's quest for moral security - how he became, in short,
democracy's muse.
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