Volume 44, Number 7 · April 24, 1997
Portrait of an Enigma
By Eric L. McKitrick
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf, 365 pp., $26.00
Up until a few years ago differences of view regarding Thomas Jefferson, to the extent that they existed, tended to occur among scholars within a professional community rather than between professionals on the one hand and voices from the lay public on the other. The latter mostly took their cues from the former, and the resulting majority view of Jefferson was one of fairly solemn and generally undiscriminating veneration.
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