#1220 First Retirement (Part One)

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🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this 16th installment of the Jefferson 101 Series, we discuss the period from 1794 to 1797 and Jefferson's return to Monticello after his tenure as Secretary of State.

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0:00.0	So here we are. See, I want to say show 12, and it's the 16th episode of Jefferson 101.
0:09.0	It's going to be the longest biography in human history before we're done.
0:13.0	You know, if people hate it, they'll let us know, right?
0:15.4	I love it because it allows me out of character to kind of re-syntheize my views of Jefferson.
0:21.0	I read everything I possibly can on Jefferson. I love it because I do and the farther
0:26.4	we get into this the more I read in, but then I get to come back to you and find out if I'm interpreting it properly.
0:33.8	There was a couple different books and I think they're both online for very cheap or maybe even
0:40.6	free.
0:42.2	One was the Sarah Randolph. Oh the domestic like of Thomas Jefferson.
0:47.4	Yeah and the other one was American Apostle. Do you know this book? No No you have been mentioning it to me though. Yeah.
0:55.4	By Slade? Is that his name? No, Shanard, I think. Oh, no, the apostle of Americanism.
1:00.6	Right. By Shanard, he's a French scholar. He wrote several books on Jefferson but
1:05.0	Thomas Jefferson apostle of Americanism. Both of them have their warts but they're
1:08.9	both they're great fun. And they're now with the digital revolution there are literally hundreds of books about
1:15.3	Jefferson that are essentially free that you can get online and either download or
1:20.5	read on a device and so on.
1:23.0	So it's a great time for Jefferson Studies because the average person for less money has more access to more than ever before.
1:30.0	And the other one that I was really excited about, in fact I made you read a couple pages of it today is
1:36.6	Liberty's First Crisis by an author named Charles Slack.
1:41.2	Oh Slack.
1:42.2	Yeah, and I'm hoping that you...
1:43.4	Charles Slack. Yeah, I'm hoping that you get a chance to read that.
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