![]() ![]() Jefferson, more than any other Founding Father, gives the illusion of continuity with the so-called American experiment. That there are many faces to Jefferson doesn’t reveal the man of complications and contradictions, per se, as it does that everyone wants to legitimize their own beliefs and ideologies by staking a claim to Jefferson. The fact that there are many faces to Jefferson testifies to his enduring mythology and allure in American culture, history, and ideology. Jefferson the conservative and libertarian. There are many faces to Thomas Jefferson. It is fitting, then, that an equally complicated and contradictory writer-Christopher Hitchens-wrote a superb little biography of his American hero. (the city he helped bring into existence) and Mount Rushmore. ![]() No other man has been so revered (save, perhaps, for George Washington) and has now been so thoroughly contested despite his status in the pantheon of heroes adorning Washington D.C. ![]() Thomas Jefferson is undoubtedly the most complicated and contradictory of the Founding Fathers. ![]()
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