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They'll need to be alert as well. Hanky-panky aside, Scandalmongers is a devilishly constructed entertainment about political warfare, legal brinkmanship and assassination by quill pen. The cast includes Aaron Burr and such FFs as Thomas Jefferson and Jameses Monroe and Madison. But the sharpest focus is on two churlish characters from early American journalism...
...with a class of 54 and a lot of really really good students. Three went out of the South. My school, I don't know how big of a deal race was, but there were two kids at my school who had 'Don't Blame Me. I Voted for Jefferson-Davis' bumper stickers. So you could say there are a lot of negative things, but there are a lot of positive things about the South...
...later years, he discerned how democracy could be distorted, pointing to Republican France and Napoleon (a "wretch," Jefferson declared, of "maniac ambition"; he added "Having been, like him, entrusted with the happiness of my country, I feel the blessing of resembling him in no other point"). Jefferson stitched together popular sovereignty and liberty, all under divine sponsorship and legitimized by ancient precedent and English tradition. Writes the historian Merrill Peterson: "For the first time in history, 'the rights of man,' not of rulers, were laid at the foundation of a nation. The first great Colonial revolt perforce became the first...
With the Declaration, Jefferson gave the Enlightenment its most eloquent and succinct political expression. He lifted the human race into a higher orbit...
...problem of impact. Which matters more, a life lost or a life changed forever? How many divisions does the Pope have, Stalin asked. Yet an idea that changes lives can have more power than an army that takes them--which leaves Gutenberg presiding over the 15th century, Jefferson over the 18th. Making body counts the ultimate measure of influence precludes the possibility of heroic sacrifice, a single death that inspires countless others to live their lives differently, a young man in front of a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square. "Five hundred years from now, it won't be Hitler...