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University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson??s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night...
...extermination of piracy is necessary for maintaining international peace and trade. The United States’ first venture into foreign military intervention occurred when Jefferson sent the navy to fight Barbary pirates in 1801. We should take a page out of Jefferson??s book: A modern naval expedition freed from ineffective international law needs to be sent to wipe out these criminals...
...Calif.) said in a statement released by her office. “While Mr. Jefferson, just as any other citizen, must be considered innocent until proven guilty, if these charges are proven true, they constitute an egregious and unacceptable abuse of public trust and power.” Jefferson??s office has declined requests for comment over the past two days. He is not expected to resign on account of the indictment announced Monday, though he did resign his seat on the Small Business Committee—the last committee seat he held—yesterday. Jefferson...
Burstein’s work suffers from a vicious “catch-22.” When he does use Jefferson??s retirement correspondence effectively, the work is historically and academically useful, but uninteresting. On the other hand, when Burstein does get to the issue that we all really want to read about and does expose Jefferson as torn between two opposing values, he drifts from his methodology and undermines his point...
Ultimately, Jefferson??s retirement and his letters are just what we expected: interesting occasionally, but by-and-large uneventful...