The Cruiser
Christopher Hitchens, 22 February 1996
On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy through an Age of Unreason
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Free Press, 168 pp., £7.99, February 1996,0 02 874094 7 Show More
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Free Press, 168 pp., £7.99, February 1996,
“... tolerably well-known that the Sage of Monticello had some unpaid help on his estate. The late I.F. Stone, indeed, who used to describe himself as a ‘Jeffersonian Marxist’, was always expecting trouble on the Marxist bit, but got himself roundly abused for identifying with a holder of people as property. Finally, O’Brien correctly notes that Jefferson ... ”