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Colin Kidd, 30 October 1997
Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency
by Stephen Knott.
Oxford, 258 pp., £19.50, November 1996,0 19 510098 0 Show More
by Stephen Knott.
Oxford, 258 pp., £19.50, November 1996,
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 367 pp., £25, December 1996,1 85619 637 2 Show More
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 367 pp., £25, December 1996,
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph Ellis.
Knopf, 365 pp., $26, February 1997,0 679 44490 4 Show More
by Joseph Ellis.
Knopf, 365 pp., $26, February 1997,
Slave Laws in Virginia
by Philip Schwarz.
Georgia, 253 pp., $40, November 1996,0 8203 1831 0 Show More
by Philip Schwarz.
Georgia, 253 pp., $40, November 1996,
“... of public opinion. The Presidential election of 1800, in which Jefferson trounced the incumbent John Adams, witnessed an outpouring of newspaper and pamphlet comment directed against his religious indifferentism. Could he be so sure that an atheist would neither pick his pocket nor break his leg? Soon after his death, a fellow Virginian, ‘Black Horse ... ”