Confounding Father | Thomas Jefferson’s Polarizing Public Image

The book cover of Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image In His Own Time is not meant to be an optical illusion. Rather, the blurred image of Thomas Jefferson alludes to the duality of not only his nature, but of public opinion. Author Robert M.S. McDonald explores this polarization and analyzes the gap between Jeffersonian politics …

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