Thomas Jefferson: American Revolutionary

Written by Robert McDonald

Narrated by Robert McDonald

Explore the captivating contradictions of one of U.S. history’s most divisive figures with the celebrated West Point professor and author of Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time.

Thomas Jefferson was the first secretary of state, second vice president, and third president of the United States. A polymath who championed education and religious freedom, he drafted the Declaration of Independence and made more attempts than any other officeholder of his generation to end slavery. Yet he remained a slaveholder throughout his life. A diplomat who charmed people abroad, at home he was a lightning rod of controversy—both loved and hated, revered and reviled.

Join West Point history professor Robert McDonald as he tells the story of the life of one of history’s most fascinating men. In 15 energetic lectures, McDonald—a noted expert on Jefferson, the American Revolution, and the Early Republic—seeks to explain Jefferson as a man of his times. The results will by turns surprise, delight, and confound you, challenging what you think you know about the third president’s life and era.

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Learn25
• Release date: Apr 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781632518521

Robert McDonald

Robert McDonald is an internationally acclaimed author, trainer, speaker and consultant. He holds an M.S. in Counseling and Mental Health, and has created and presented seminars on interpersonal communication and mental health skills for over 25 years. On the business front, he co-authored NLP: The New Technology of Achievement (with Steve Andreas, et al) and Success Mastery With NLP (Nightingale-Conant audio tapes with Charles Faulkner). His contributions to psychology, NLP, and PsychoteleologyTM (the study of the unending positive purposes of the mind) are intended to help resolve individual and group suffering through empowered compassion, which is the result of marrying the Heart (kindness) and the Sword (technology). In the field of psychology, Robert's brief therapy perspectives, models, methodologies and skills are summarized in his 15 day program for practicing therapists called Healing The Wounded Heart: NLP as Brief Therapy. His many seminars range from introductory courses to highly advanced work with beliefs, identity and spirituality. As a contributor to the field of NLP, McDonald is a pioneer in the fields of psychotherapy, addictions, and co-dependence. He created The Releasing Emotional Enmeshment Process, the first NLP procedure to impact co-dependence and other addictions. It is featured in Steve and Connirae Andreas' Heart of the Mind and in John Bradshaw's Homecoming. He also created a variety of NLP processes which increase self-esteem, transform limiting beliefs, clarify personal boundaries, integrate various archetypes, and resolve interpersonal conflicts, e.g. Sanctuary, Self-Parenting and The Coupled Heart. Within PsychoteleologyTM he created several models and processes which build group consciousness, establish team spirit, integrate and actualize personal potentials, clarify mission, vision, and purpose, and create a context for the manifestation of genius. Many years ago Robert, who values authenticity, humility and mercy, came to understand that his personal mission in life is to heal and be healed. His vision is to create a world filled with self-actualized individuals and groups. All of his work reflects his mission and vision and is founded on the Spiritual principle that behind every behavior, thought, feeling, fantasy, attitude and experience are universally acceptable positive purposes which often need additional modes of expression.

Reviews for Thomas Jefferson

[david nichols · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Downhill fast with 6hrs and 30min left. Just became dumb as if a different writer or an indifferent writer took over. Sorry not sorry.