Nearly two centuries after his death, Thomas Jefferson continues
to be the subject of competing claims about his public policy and
his private beliefs.
In Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third
President, two religious conservatives examines key claims
frequently made by other religious conservatives about Thomas
Jefferson. Using Jefferson's correspondence, accounts of
Jefferson's contemporaries, and other original sources,
Throckmorton and Coulter separate fact from fiction.
The authors examine the following questions and more.
-Did Jefferson sign his presidential documents, "In the year of
our Lord Christ?"
-Did Jefferson and other Founders finance a Bible in 1798 to get
the Word of God to America's Families?
-Did Jefferson found the Virginia Bible Society?
-Was Jefferson an orthodox Christian, who only rarely expressed
questions about orthodox Christian doctrine?
-Did Jefferson approve laws providing federal funds to
evangelize Indians?
-Did Jefferson edit the Gospels of the New Testament to remove
sections he disagreed with?
-Did Virginia law keep Jefferson from freeing his slaves?
The aim of the authors is to get Jefferson right.
Praise for Getting Jefferson Right:
Getting Jefferson Right is an intellectual and historical take
down of David Barton's pseudo-history of Thomas Jefferson by two
Christian professors who teach at a conservative Christian college.
Michael Coulter and Warren Throckmorton have done their homework.
Anyone who reads this book must come to grips with the untruths and
suspect historical interpretations that Barton regularly peddles in
his books, speaking engagements, and on his radio program. I have
yet to read a more thorough refutation of Barton's claims.
--John Fea, Chair of the History Department, Messiah College and
author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical
Introduction
I cannot overemphasize the importance of reading Getting
Jefferson Right, by Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter. It is
a point-counterpoint to David Barton's, aptly titled, The Jefferson
Lies; and, it corrects every myth that Barton presents. Every
evangelical pastor in America, especially African-American pastors,
needs to not only read, but also study the facts in Getting
Jefferson Right. For too many years, David Barton has misled
pastors across America and this book is the perfect tool to help
bring us back to the true, undiluted life of Thomas Jefferson.
-Ray McMillian, President, Race to Unity
Christians are rightly distressed when American history is
purged of its religious elements. But that's no excuse for us to
reconstruct the views of Founders such as Thomas Jefferson
according to our likeness. In Getting Jefferson Right, Warren
Throckmorton and Michael Coulter have done all of us a great
service by exposing, carefully and dispassionately, so many of the
popular distortions and half-truths about Jefferson. In the
process, they have modeled how to deal with historical texts
honestly. If you are interested in learning about the real
Jefferson, you owe it to yourself to read this book.
--Jay W. Richards, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute,
Co-author of The New York Times bestselling Indivisible: Restoring
Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late
Getting Jefferson Right is an excellent example of the art of
historical contextualization, of trying to tell the whole story,
not just part of it. For those reasons, the work should become a
standard reference.
--Paul Harvey, Religion Dispatches, teaches history at the
University of Colorado
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