Good Day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners and as always thank you so much for listening.

This week we speak with President Jefferson.

How about the letters at the end of my new book repairing Jefferson's America which

I'm just begging you all to read and promote pretty shamelessly this week I have to say

I'm sorry I you'll hear it in the Jefferson Watch I would never done that before as you know, but I believe this is not because it's my book, but the concepts in this book, at the end of it there are 13 letters as you know and you chose one.

I did.

And before you go there I'm going to read something from your introduction to your book.

I invite people who want more from their country and more from their individual lives to read this book and work consciously to become

Jeffersonians.

Every time I think about Jefferson's life as an amateur architect, amateur scientists, man of letters, scholar and political philosopher,

a man who cultivated friendship and pursued the good life with impeccable manners and generosity of spirit,

I want to be more like him.

That's from the introduction to repairing Jefferson's America.

Here, here, I do want to be more like Jefferson.

I know that Jefferson carries some baggage on certain questions.

I think that Jefferson has a lot to answer for on the questions of race and slavery and

the dispossession of Native Americans, but as you know I take the whole man theory I think we

still desperately need Jefferson and my book carefully distinguishes

between Jefferson the human being and the Jeffersonian his vision of what

a well-educated citizenry could do, especially governing itself as

this letter that we looked at today suggests at the local level, David.

I have a couple of announcements to make here. We're having a third

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