Ep. 1229 Thomas Jefferson: The History You Never Learned
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jefferson biographer Kevin Gutzman, who just released a new course on Jefferson for my LibertyClassroom.com, joins me to discuss Jefferson's influences, his early political career, his extraordinary accomplishments even outside politics, and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1229. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:27.4 | compare and buy life insurance. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Kevin Goodsman is my guest today. Kevin and I |
| 0:33.4 | wrote a book together called Who Killed the Constitution. Kevin is a professor of history at Western Connecticut State University. |
| 0:40.5 | He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. |
| 0:42.7 | He also has a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. |
| 0:46.3 | He is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including the politically |
| 0:50.0 | incorrect guide to the Constitution, James Madison and The Making of America, and |
| 0:54.7 | the book most relevant to our discussion today, Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary, a |
| 0:59.2 | radicals struggle to remake America. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm inviting Kevin right now, in particular, because we just launched his brand new |
| 1:06.2 | course called the Thomas Jefferson Nobody Knows over at Liberty Classroom.com. |
| 1:11.1 | So if you haven't joined that yet, now is an outstanding time to do so because what a great |
| 1:15.6 | course Kevin has created for us. |
| 1:17.7 | And we're going to focus today on the earlier years of Jefferson's career because there's |
| 1:22.9 | a lot of rich material there and really does help us get to know the man and what made the man. Because |
| 1:29.4 | as you're going to find out, he did some truly extraordinary things that you would not have |
| 1:34.1 | expected or predicted that somebody from his background would do. So very interesting history |
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