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...time--was not a path between the oceans but a story whose power to challenge and absorb would bridge the more profound gap between their day and ours, between that age of new possibilities glimpsed and this one of unforeseen upheavals survived. By the time President Jefferson sent the captains up that muddy river and out of sight, the young nation already had a Constitution, but it lacked an epic. It had a government but no real identity. Lewis and Clark helped invent...
...Jefferson is a good man of the Enlightenment," says Ronda. "Knowledge is valued to the extent that it is useful. The yardstick here is always utility. He'll measure a river by its navigability. He measures land by its fertility...
...Though there is often more teenage slang in these volumes than Jeff Spicoli's analysis of the Declaration of Independence at the end of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"("So what Jefferson was saying was, 'Hey, you know, we left this England place because it was bogus'") adults, refreshingly, are the intended audience. Thus "U.S. History for Dummies" is able to quote a Richard Nixon Watergate tape in all its four-letter-word glory. If a high school textbook cited a sitting president telling his aides, "I don't give a shit what happens," parents would sue the school board...
...works: A segment called "Read This" will each month profile a different regional book club, whose members will then choose the next book. Last week viewers met the margarita-sipping, tiara-sporting Pulpwood Queens of Jefferson, Texas; their recommendation of Ann Packer's book shot it to No. 1 on Amazon.com
...Renaissance man,” says Jefferson Flanders ’77, who lived with Mead senior year...