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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham
Meacham on Jefferson as a practical politician who used power while writing of liberty, with his slavery and Hemings addressed. Admiring, readable.
Read it if…
you want Jefferson the operator, not just the author.
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Skip it if…
you want a critical account.
Try instead: And There Was Light →
Three things you will actually use
- Ideals need power to act.
- Flexibility is not hypocrisy, always.
- Know your contradictions.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the Louisiana Purchase.
Our verdict
Jefferson, practical.
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