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Robert of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson was the most controversial and confounding. Loved and hated, revealed and reviled during his lifetime, he served as a lightning rod for dispute. Even today, he serves as a lightning rod or dispute. Few major figures in American History promote such a polarization of Public Opinion. Supporters that organize festivals in his honor, they praised him in speeches and song. His detractors portrayed him as a dilettante and a demagogue. Doublefaced and dangerously radical. An atheist, hostile to christianity. Characterizing his believes as unamerican, they target with the extremism of the french revolution. Allies call him the formerly anonymous author of the declaration of independence. Image took shape because of his own creation. And because of factors out of his contro ....
History promote such a polarization of Public Opinion. Well he has supporters that organize festivals in his honor, they praised him in speeches and song. His detractors portrayed him as a dilettante and a demagogue. Doublefaced and dangerously radical. An atheist, hostile to christianity. Characterizing his believes as unamerican, they target with the extremism of the french revolution. His allies call him the formerly anonymous author of the declaration of independence. His bifurcated image took shape because of his own creation. And because of factors out of his control. America positives about jefferson reflected their views of america. Robert s mcdonald is a professor of history at the United States military academy where he has taught since 1998. He is a graduate of the university of virginia and the university of North ....
Author Robert Mcdonald explains why Thomas Jefferson was a polarizing figure and described how his actions and writings led him to be revered by his contemporaries and led him to be portrayed as radical and unamerican. This talk was hosted by the Virginia Historical society and is about one hour and 15 minutes. Fathers, the founding Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and con town in. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime, he served as a lightning rod for dispute and even today, serves as a lightning rod for dispute. Few major figures in American History provost such a polarization of Public Opinion. While j ....
Father. Copies of which he will be happy to sign for you after the lecture. He recently accepted an invitation to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of our own virginia magazine of history and biography. We are happy to have him. He currently lives in caldwell on hudson, new york. With his wife christine and their children, jefferson and grace. Please give a warm welcome to robert mcdonald. [applause] professor mcdonald. Thank you all so much for coming. Blown my cover somewhat. I would like to stand before you as the objective historian without a dog in this fight. I do admit that i have a warm feeling for Thomas Jefferson. As he pointed out, my son is named jefferson. My wife and i actually met at monticello. [applause] where she was employed as a research associate. We started working on a project together and started to date. I decided i wanted to propose m ....
Is on the marquis of the broadway show. I thought his was far m a the most dramatic story of the founding fathers. It was the only one not born in the original 13 colonies, the story of a penniless, orphaned, immigrant kid who comes out of nowhere and sets the world on fire and his achievements were monumental. Charlie , eisai before his achievements he came out of nowhere, where is nowhere . He spent his adolescence on st. Croix and he had this ghastly, dickensian childhood. His father left at 11, his mother died when he was 13 and he was farmed out to a first cousin who committed suicide a asr later and he was working an impoverished clerk in st. Croix when the hurricane hit the island. He published a description of it in the local paper that was brilliant. He came to north america and did not know a soul. Our with a few letters of introduction. Charlie he was very smart . Alexander hamilton was one who radiated genius. It became clear he was one of the most remarkable people you had ....