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Jefferson
Examines Thomas Jefferson's complicated life and legacy, using re-enactments, still photographs and artwork, and commentary from Jefferson scholars. Jefferson is the most researched, most written about, most referenced, and most-quoted of our Founding Fathers. And yet, somehow, he remains the most stubbornly inscrutable. His life is a seemingly impenetrable thicket of contradictions: he enshrined the words 'All Men are Created Equal, ' and yet was a lifelong slave-owner; he was simultaneously a 'man of the people' and the personification of the Virginia aristocrat; he was a die-hard American revolutionary who was also a dedicated lover of European culture and art; he advocated ruthless fiscal responsibility as president, yet his own finances were mired in debt. He is an American icon who remains, in historian Joseph Ellis' memorable phrase, a great American Sphinx.
- "Examines Thomas Jefferson's complicated life and legacy, using re-enactments, still photographs and artwork, and commentary from Jefferson scholars. Jefferson is the most researched, most written about, most referenced, and most-quoted of our Founding Fathers. And yet, somehow, he remains the most stubbornly inscrutable. His life is a seemingly impenetrable thicket of contradictions: he enshrined the words 'All Men are Created Equal, ' and yet was a lifelong slave-owner; he was simultaneously a 'man of the people' and the personification of the Virginia aristocrat; he was a die-hard American revolutionary who was also a dedicated lover of European culture and art; he advocated ruthless fiscal responsibility as president, yet his own finances were mired in debt. He is an American icon who remains, in historian Joseph Ellis' memorable phrase, a great American Sphinx."@en
- ""Thomas Jefferson is the most researched, most written about, most referenced, and most quoted of our Founding Fathers. And yet, somehow, he remains the most stubbornly inscrutable. His life is a seemingly impenetrable thicket of contradictions: he enshrined the words "All Men are Created Equal," and yet was a lifelong slave-owner; he was simultaneously a "man of the people" and the personification of the Virginia aristocrat; he was a die-hard American revolutionary who was also a dedicated lover of European culture and art; he advocated ruthless fiscal responsibility as president, yet his own finances were mired in debt. Embrace and celebrate the third president's complicated life and legacy in the two-hour History documentary, Jefferson, the story of a national icon who remains, in historian Joseph Ellis' memorable phrase, "a great American Sphinx." "--Container."@en
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