#1487 In Pursuit of Jefferson with Derek Baxter
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🗓️ 22 March 2022
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This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Clay Jenkinson welcomes the author Derek Baxter to discuss Baxter's recently published book, In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father. To write the book, Baxter spent eight years doing research and traveling to sites in Europe that Jefferson visited.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners. |
| 0:03.3 | Thanks so much for listening and thank you for supporting the show. |
| 0:08.1 | We appreciate it. |
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| 0:15.9 | And you can learn about Clay's cultural tours and upcoming events on his |
| 0:21.6 | schedule at the website. |
| 0:23.6 | I know you have a big one of France tour coming up this fall. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm sure you want to mention it again. |
| 0:29.5 | But this week's one on one conversation is with Derek Baxter, who has written a |
| 0:37.4 | new book that you ordered immediately. |
| 0:39.8 | You said I did the minute I got an alert Jefferson in Europe. |
| 0:45.1 | I ordered it. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm working on a project involving Jefferson and the Italian humanist Beccarea. |
| 0:50.8 | Beccarea wrote a famous treatise on crimes and punishments that Jefferson was fond of |
| 0:54.9 | and Jefferson used. |
| 0:56.3 | So I'm working with a group on a dialogue between Beccarea and Jefferson that's |
| 1:01.0 | going to actually premiere in Milan sometime in late 2022 or early 2023. |
| 1:07.8 | And so and I'm leading this Jefferson tour of France coming up of this fall. |
| 1:11.8 | People can find out more about that at Jeffersonhour.com. |
| 1:16.4 | But when I saw this, I thought, OK, I've got to read this book and find out more. |
| 1:20.0 | It's an interesting, fascinating account of a family traveling in the footsteps |
| 1:25.7 | of Jefferson to all of the countries that he visited in Europe, including England with |
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