Word: jeffersons
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Davey was long gone, but the damage had been done. I loved a dissipated lifestyle but needed a spiritual anchor. Where could I find it? Thomas Jefferson was awesome, but he was a snobby slave-owner; and lots of the priests at my high school were insane. All that was left for me was confusion...
...working on a mini-series on the history of baseball, scheduled to air in 1994. He is overseeing (though not personally producing) another major historical series, on the American West. He is also planning a series of 60- and 90-minute biographies of American historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark...
LIKE FISH IN A BARREL, CONGRESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN TOO good a target to miss. From the very beginning, the tendency of the nation's lawmakers to posture or steal or make damn fools of themselves has been an inspiration to reformers and parodists alike. In 1794 Thomas Jefferson, who was easily shocked by the depths to which other politicians could sink, denounced the "shameless corruption" he had witnessed in the First and Second Congresses. A century later, Mark Twain, who was not so easily shocked, insisted there was no such thing as a "distinctively native American criminal class, except...
...middle of the 19th century, Americans thought they had outgrown the past. History was the Old World; America was too young to have a usable past. The great American tradition, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, was to trample on tradition. In the 1880s the house where Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence had become a hot-dog emporium. For most of the 19th century, American history was rarely included in the standard school curriculum...
Beginning in the late 1800s, however, people seemed to hanker for history and tradition. Statues of Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant rose in every town and hamlet. In 1907, 20,000 spectators came to see a Jefferson Davis monument dedicated in Richmond. The first of many colonial revivals in design was under way. Historical pageants flourished...