We answer listener mail and make a call to Europe to speak with our Thomas Jefferson Hour Paris correspondent Bruce Pitts.
#1174 Jefferson 108
#1173 Becoming Jefferson's People (Part Two)
#1172 Becoming Jefferson's People (Part One)
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#1169 Crockett Middle School
#1168 Job Interview
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This week, Thomas Jefferson Hour creator Clay S. Jenkinson presents part five in a series of biographical shows about the life of Thomas Jefferson. This week's episode explores Jefferson as "the reluctant revolutionary".
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This week, Thomas Jefferson Hour creator Clay S. Jenkinson presents part four in a series of biographical shows about the life of Thomas Jefferson. This week's episode is about Jefferson the builder, in which we discuss Jefferson's passion, or as he put it: "Architecture is my delight, and putting up and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements."
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#1162 A New Year
#1161 Baa Humbug
Thomas Jefferson shares his views about not celebrating Christmas. President Jefferson discusses the Christmases faced by George Washington during the the Newburgh Conspiracy, a plan by some Continental Army officers to challenge the authority of the Confederation Congress due to their frustrations with Congress's failure to meet its financial obligations to the military.
#1160 Enlightenment
#1159 The Glier Violin
#1158 The Cause of Civilization
In an out-of-character program, Clay S. Jenkinson, the creator of the Thomas Jefferson Hour, speaks with our Paris Correspondent, Bruce Pitts and with Dr. Geoffrey Wawro, author of Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East, about the recent terrorism attacks in Paris.
Further reading:
- Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East by Dr. Geoffrey Wawro
- Pitts in Paris
Jefferson 101 is a series of biographical shows about the life of Thomas Jefferson that ran from 2016 to 2017.
Jefferson was a pragmatic utopian, and a utopian pragmatist.
I’m a devoted American patriot. I love this country, but I want it to be more like the country I love than the disillusioned, vulgar, and divisive place it has become.
"Two seraphs await me long shrouded in death; I will bear them your love on my last parting breath."
— Thomas Jefferson, July 1826
We conclude our Jefferson 101 biographical series by discussing his final days at Monticello, his legacy, and the deaths of both Jefferson and John Adams on July 4th, 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.