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Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Nelson
April 2012
On Sale: April 10, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 1595554599
EAN: 9781595554598
Kindle: B005ENBCBE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
America, in so many ways, has forgotten. Its roots, its purpose, its identityβall have become shrouded behind a veil of political correctness bent on twisting the nation's founding, and its founders, to fit within a misshapen modern world. The time has come to remember again. In The Jefferson Lies, prominent historian David Barton sets out to correct the distorted image of a once-beloved founding father, Thomas Jefferson. To do so, Barton tackles seven myths head-on, including: - Did Thomas Jefferson really have a child by his young slave girl, Sally Hemings?
- Did he write his own Bible, excluding the parts of Christianity with which he disagreed?
- Was he a racist who opposed civil rights and equality for black Americans?
- Did he, in his pursuit of separation of church and state, advocate the secularizing public life?
Through Jefferson's own words and the eyewitness testimony of contemporaries, Barton repaints a portrait of the man from Monticello as a visionary, an innovator, a man who revered Jesus, a classical Renaissance manβand a man whose pioneering stand for liberty and God-given inalienable rights fostered a better world for this nation and its posterity. For America, the time to remember these truths again is now.
 Media BuzzDaily Show with Jon Stewart - May 1, 2012
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