Thomas Jefferson & the University of Virginia with Andrew O'Shaughnessy

Why was education such a critical goal of America's revolutionaries?   We talk with Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy about his new book,  TheThe Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind, about Thomas Jefferson's idea of a university. 

Andrew O'Shaughnessy teaches at the college Jefferson founed, and he is director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies.  His most recent book was The Men Who Lost America, on the British officers and politicians who lost the war.  His new book looks at a what a difference it made that the Americans won.

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