{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e3852cbdb67c0f94f393857/5e38537d94ec4b4a36d447cb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time","description":"<p>Why are Americans so fascinated with our third President? What did Jefferson’s contemporaries think of him?<br /><br />Robert McDonald joins us this week to talk about the life and ideas of Thomas Jefferson.<br /><br /><strong>Show Notes and Further Reading</strong><br /><br />McDonald’s book is <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Confounding-Father-Jeffersons-Jeffersonian-America/dp/0813938961\"><em>Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time</em> (2016)</a>.<br /><br />There is a conception that politics was more civil at the turn of the 19th century; <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI\">this Reason.tv video proves otherwise</a>.</p>","author_name":"Libertarianism.org"}