Thermometer on the dashboard of the car and it was 103 degrees as we came in. So it is much nicer to me. I want to thank you for coming out, especially on night when my priors are struggling to stay alive. I guess well find out how we think that when this is over. I want to talk with you tonight about jefferson and hamilton. Their political battle was over the shape and care for the new american nation and not battle has been a sense never really ended. Puts one in mind of the line from folksinger when he says the past isnt dead. In fact, the past is an event past because Jeffords Jefferson and hamiltons battle was over the same issues that have been perennial values in american clinical history. Struggles over the power and intrusiveness of the federal government, over which americans were to be empowered, over the distribution of wealth and over the size of the american military. The reputations of hamilton and jefferson have acted flowed over the years. Jefferson was the predominant
The kind of crisis and concern about what was going on in the states . All of which provided some of the impetus for the creation of a central federal government and that will be the subject of our next class. So ill see. And now for the main event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of je
And now for the main event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president
So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president , but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. It was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. So jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he almost didnt travel to france at all. He had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador from the United States and a declined it both times. But there were there were two events two traumatic events that really changed his mind and changed his whole life in the early 1780s that led him to take this trip. So one was he was governor of virginia for two years during the revolutionary war and it wound up being a very difficult time jefferson
About me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president , but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. It was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. So jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he almost didnt travel to france at all. He had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador from the United States and a declined it both times. But there were there were two events two traumatic events that really changed his mind and changed his whole life in the early 1780s that led him to take this trip. So one was he was governor of virginia for two years during the revolutionary war and it wound up being a very difficult time jefferson, you know, hes a brilliant guy, bu