The real Jefferson

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: April 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. By Andrew Burstein. University Press of Virginia. $37.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. In 1993 M. L. Burstein, an eminent American economist who teaches in Canada, published a book in Great Britain entitled Understanding Thomas Jefferson. In the preface he asked, "What was Thomas Jefferson really like?" And he confessed, "I do not know; nobody does."

Professor Burstein, meet Dr. Andrew Burstein, independent scholar, who more than any other historian, economist, or biographer knows what Thomas Jefferson was really like. His book, The Inner ...

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