Ep. 851 Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Thomas Jefferson, says biographer Kevin Gutzman, is the most significant statesman in American history. We discuss Jefferson's views on federalism, education, the University of Virginia, slavery, colonization, American Indians, and freedom of conscience.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 851. |
| 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. |
| 0:14.3 | Folks, one of the first things you figure out when you become a libertarian is that all the U.S. presidents your teachers told you were great were terrible. |
| 0:22.8 | Learn the true history of the U.S. presidents and their crimes against liberty in our course |
| 0:27.8 | on the presidents. Check it out at freehistorycourse.com. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here with Kevin Goodsman, who's back here on the show. |
| 0:36.8 | He has a brand new book on Thomas |
| 0:38.5 | Jefferson, published by St. Martin's. It's called Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary, |
| 0:44.1 | a radicals struggle to remake America. Tremendous book, I highly recommend it. Obviously, we're |
| 0:50.6 | linking it at Tom Woods.com slash 851. |
| 0:54.8 | Kevin, as you may recall from previous episodes, is the chairman of the Department of History |
| 0:59.6 | at Western Connecticut State University. |
| 1:02.0 | He's the author of numerous books, including the politically incorrect guide to the Constitution, |
| 1:06.8 | which is a New York Times bestseller, as well as James Madison and The Making of America. |
| 1:12.0 | He and I wrote a book together in 2008 called Who Killed the Constitution. |
| 1:16.8 | So we'll have links to this stuff also on the show notes page. |
| 1:20.4 | Kevin, welcome to the show. |
| 1:21.8 | Happy to be here, Tom. |
| 1:23.1 | Well, you know I'm a big fan of yours, of course, and I love this book. |
| 1:26.8 | I find the organization |
| 1:28.1 | intriguing. It's not another book taking you from Jefferson's childhood to his old age. It's |
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