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Originally Posted by frazod
I'm about 2/3rds of the way through American Sphinx, a Thomas Jefferson biography.
And I still think he's a friggin weasel.
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I finished this a few days ago (felt like a homework assignment towards the end). It wasn't a terribly good book, and Jefferson was most definitely a friggin weasel. This quote from Hamilton sums him up perfectly: "I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principal measures of the past [Washington's] administration, that he is crafty and persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of the truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite." Definitely not the pillar of virtue we have all been led to believe. Not even remotely close.
But enough with that bastard. Just started another Steven Pressfield novel - Tides of War. Excellent so far.