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02 Jul 2004 05:37:45 AM |
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OT: Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson |
Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040705/story.html
He drafted the declaration, sparked a revolution and became ensnared
in a sex scandal with a slave. In this third annual chapter in TIME's
Making of America series, we take a look at the most controversial
founding father
By WALTER KIRN
Posted Sunday, June 27, 2004
The war he had helped launch and justify raged on, the enemy's army
had swept through his state capital only hours before and his
successor as Virginia's Governor still hadn't been selected by the
legislature, but Thomas Jefferson was going home, convinced that his
work for America was done. It was the summer of 1781, five years since
the July in Philadelphia when the author of the Declaration of
Independence had, in two inspired weeks of writing energized by years
of thought and study and practical political activity, helped create a
new nation with his pen. The course this nation would follow remained
uncertain, the fate of its central ideals undecided and the question
of its very survival unclear, but Jefferson's direction was firm and
fixed: away from politics and public life and back to his cherished
plantation, Monticello. Back to his loved ones, his gardens, his
fields, his library and to the scores of people whose labor made his
pursuit of happiness possible: his slaves.
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