“Of all of the people of this era, there is one and only one huge paradox, and it’s Thomas Jefferson.”
Clay shares his first impressions of John B. Boles' new book, Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty.
Further Reading
- Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty by John B. Boles
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
- The Jefferson Image in the American Mind by Merrill D. Peterson
What Would Jefferson Do?
“I believed, as a figure of the Enlightenment, that it’s simply too late in the world’s history to solve disputes through bloodshed.”
Tune in to your local public radio or join the 1776 Club to hear this episode of What Would Thomas Jefferson Do?
This week, an interview with Clay S. Jenkinson about his new book, The Language of Cottonwoods.
We're joined by Char Miller to discuss a new book, Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena. The book is a collection of noted essays by Roosevelt scholars and was edited by Miller and Clay Jenkinson. Char Miller is W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College.
"Understand him for his flaws as well as for his greatness."
— Joe Ellis
We welcome historian Joseph Ellis to the program this week to talk about his book American Creation. In the book, Ellis notes a series of five contributions the founding fathers made and Clay Jenkinson asks how those contributions are holding up during our time.
Over the past few days I have had the wonderful guilty pleasure of sitting down to read Robinson Crusoe cover to cover. I know I should have been doing other things, some of them pressing, but I just sat there and read this famous and fabulous account of a man who is shipwrecked on a small island off of Venezuela and spends 28 years there, 26 alone with a parrot and some semi-domesticated flocks of goats.