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    Repairing Jefferson's America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
    Repairing Jefferson's America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
    Repairing Jefferson's America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
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    Repairing Jefferson's America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship

    By Clay S Jenkinson

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    Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the greatest idealist of the Founding Fathers of America. He believed that average citizens are up to the challenge of governing themselves. He envisioned a republic of well-educated, well-informed, engaged, and vigilant citizens. Jefferson’s dream of a semi-utopian American republic has nearly been swallow

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKoehler Books
    Release dateAug 10, 2020
    ISBN9781646630974
    Repairing Jefferson's America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
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    Clay S Jenkinson

    Clay Jenkinson is a public humanities scholar. His degrees are all in English. He has a BA from the University of Minnesota, and an MA from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes and Danforth Scholar. He is the author of nine books-several on his beloved North Dakota, several on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and two on Theodore Roosevelt. He has made four documentary films about Great Plains subjects. He has been in three of Ken Burns' documentary films and appeared on a range of television shows, including The Today Show, Politically Incorrect, and Fox and Friends. He is the creator of the Thomas Jefferson Hour, a weekly NPR radio program and podcast. He has won humanities scholar of the year awards in Kansas, Nevada, and North Dakota, and has received the National Humanities Medal for exemplary work in the public humanities. He is one of the founders of the modern Chautauqua movement and the founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University in western North Dakota.

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