In their fascinating, subtle, and deeply insightful new book, Annette Gordon-Reed, Warren professor of American legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history, and Peter S. What kind of patriarch did this American founder wish and imagine himself to be? ask two eminent Jefferson scholars. I shall imagine myself as blessed as the most blessed of the patriarchs.” He was anxious “to be liberated from the hated occupations of politics, and to sink into the bosom of my family, my farm and my books…. “I am going to Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in November 1793, shortly before resigning as George Washington’s secretary of state.
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