Thomas Jefferson occupies a special niche in the hagiology of
American Founding Fathers. His name is invoked for a staggering
range of causes; statists and libertarians, nationalists and
States' righters, conservatives and radicals all claim his
blessing. In this book, Forrest McDonald examines Jefferson's
performance as the nation's leader, evaluating his ability as a
policy-maker, administrator, and diplomat.
He delineates, carefully and sympathetically, the Jeffersonian
ideology and the agrarian ideal that underlay it; he traces the
steps by which the ideology was transformed into a program of
action; and he concludes that the interplay between the ideology
and the action accounted both for the unparalleled success of
Jefferson's first term in office, and for the unmitigated failure
of the second term.
Jefferson as president was a man whose ideological commitments
prevented him from reversing calamitous policy stances, a man who
could be ruthless in suppressing civil rights when it was
politically expedient, a man who was rarely, in the conventional
sense of the word, a Jeffersonian. McDonald's portrait reveals him
to be at once greater, simpler, and more complexly human than the
mere "apostle of liberty" or "spokesman for democracy" that his
adulators have relegated him to being.
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