Jeffersons found of university of virginia, Thomas Jeffersons education. This is an hour. Im bradley graham, the coowner of politics and pros, along with my wife and everybody at p and p welcome, have you thank you very much for coming down to our location at the wharf. Were pleased to have alan taylor here to talk about his new book Thomas Jeffersons education. Alan is a professor, held the Thomas Jefferson chair in American History at university of virginia for the past five years and before that, he taught at university of california at davis, and at boston university. Hes also written eight previous books on topics ranging from the colonial period to the war of 1812 and beyond. Two of his works have won a Pulitzer Prize in history. In 1996 it went to his William Cooperstown, about the politician William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fenmore cooper then in 2014, the pulitzitzer prize to his ba on slavery and war of 1812 and contradictions of society. In Thomas Jeffersons ed