The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson

By David Barton

Book Overview

America, in So Many Ways, Has Forgotten. Its roots, its purpose, its identity-all have become shrouded behind a veil of political correctness bent on twisting the nation's founding, and its founders, to fit within a misshapen modern mold. The time has come to remember again. In The Fefferson Lies, prominent historian David Barton sets out to correct the distorted image of a once-beloved founding father, Thomas Jefferson. To do so, Barton tackles seven myths head-on, including: Did Thomas Jefferson really have child by his young slave girl, Sally Hemings? Did he write his own Bible, excluding the parts of Christinity with which he disagreed? Was he a racist who opposed civil rights and equality for black Americans? Did he, in his pursuit of separation of church and state, advocate the secularizing public life? Through Jefferson's own words and the eyewitness testimony of contemporaies, Barton repaints a portrait of the man from Monticello as a visionary, an innovator, a man who revered Jesus, a classical Renaissance man-and a man whose pioneering stand for liberty and God-given inalienable rights fostered a better world for this nation and its posterity. For America, the time to remember these truths again is now. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595554599
• ISBN13: 9781595554598
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Tier 1 Book, Author, and Research!

David Barton has the largest private collection of Founding Era documents in the world. He studies and uses them. He looks at things through a constitutional, biblical, and historical perspective. He has been a subject matter expert in several Supreme Court cases because of his scholarship that only the deceived or ignorant refute. This book is pure gold. After reading it, and investigating the scholarship that went into it, I recommend it to everyone. It is such an easy read too. Mr. Barton, like Mr. Jefferson, have so much slander and libel going on about them, but Mr. Barton's primary sources used to back up his claims are indisputable. I love that in this edition he also takes on some of his critic's arguments against the book. He soundly lays them to rest using not opinions or regurgitated legend but primary sources that you can read for your self, mostly on the Wall Builders website or the Smithsonian. This book is one of my favorites! It is very edifying.