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Is Thomas Jefferson the most overrated man in US history?

In her beautiful book American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Pauline Maier, a historian at MIT who died on Monday of lung cancer, described Thomas Jefferson as “the most overrated person in American history.” Is this statement a classic case of revisionism from … Continue reading

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