New Books Network Podcast Episodes featuring Thomas Jefferson

Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

New Books Network - December 10, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
In Greek mythology Prometheus is the trickster Titan who gives fire to humanity. As Wilson Jeremiah Moses explains in his book Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus (Cambridge University Press, 2019) America’s third president demonstrated many of the same traits as this legendary figure over the ...

Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

New Books Network - September 05, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Today I talked to Matthew Crow about his book Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.  Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and th...

Henry Wiencek, “Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves” (FSG, 2012)

New Books Network - May 15, 2013 14:55 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
The Louisiana Purchase was a perfect illustration of the challenges, yet seemingly boundless opportunities that slavery presented statesmen like Thomas Jefferson. Napoleon Bonaparte had been dealt a significant military defeat at the hands of a slave revolt in Haiti, forcing him to reconsider his...

Michael Kranish, “Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War” (Oxford UP, 2010)

New Books Network - July 01, 2010 16:59 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
The past is always with us, but it’s really always with politicians. Once you put yourself up for office, and particularly national office, everybody and his brother is going to start digging into your past to see what kind of “dirt” they can find. It’s true now, and it was true when Thomas Jeffe...