![]() (Annette Gordon-Reed has done great work on this story over the years.) Even since Meacham wrote that, Jefferson’s historical reputation has done little to improve, as Hamilton has once again made the public question the character of Hamilton’s political nemesis. ![]() He makes the point that Jefferson has had a rough go of it for the past twenty years or so (he wrote it this in 2012), as new DNA evidence made it extremely likely that Jefferson had children by his slave, Sally Hemings. ![]() Jon Meacham writes this in the epilogue to Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, and it is a perfect encapsulation of his noble work on one of our greatest Founding Fathers. The closest thing to a constant in his life was his need for power and for control.” “The real Jefferson was like so many of us: a bundle of contradictions, competing passions, flaws, sins, and virtues that can never be neatly smoothed out into a tidy whole. For more information and to read others in the series, click here. ![]() This is the third review in an ongoing series I call The Hamilton Project. ![]()
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