The Duality of Thomas Jefferson

Historian Jon Meacham, in two lectures and video interviews, explains why TJ is his favorite founder

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham , born in 1969, calls himself a “recovering journalist,” neither a Democrat nor a Republican, and is one of the most prominent younger historians in a field in which people tend to distinguish themselves in older years. He does not view the study of America’s founding as a “historical anti-depressant,” to simply…