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

    By David Barton

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    The American public was nearly deprived of the opportunity to read this book.

    In 2012 popular historian David Barton set out to correct what he saw as the distorted image of a once-beloved Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, in what became a New York Times best-selling book, The Jefferson Lies.

    Despite the wildly popular success of the original hardcover edition, or perhaps because of it, a campaign to discredit Barton’s scholarship was launched by bloggers and a handful of non-historian academics. 

    What happened next was shocking – virtually unprecedented in modern American publishing history. Under siege from critics, the publisher spiked the book and recalled it from the retail shelves from coast to coast. The Jefferson Lies is thus a history book that made history – becoming possibly the first book of its kind to be victimized by the scourge of “political correctness.”

    But more than three years later, it’s back as an updated paperback edition in which Barton sets the record straight and takes on the critics who savaged his work.

    And that’s just part of the story. Why did this book spark so much controversy? 

    It could only happen in an America that has forgotten its past. 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, beyond recognition.

    The time has come to remember again.

    This new paperback edition of The Jefferson Lies re-documents Barton's research and conclusions as sound and his premises true. It tackles seven myths about Thomas Jefferson head-on, and answers pressing questions about this incredible statesman including:

    • Did Thomas Jefferson really have a child by his young slave girl, Sally Hemings?
    • Did he write his own Bible, excluding the parts of Christianity 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 of public life?

    Through Jefferson's own words and the eyewitness testimony of contemporaries, 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  is now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWND Books
    Release dateJan 12, 2016
    ISBN9781944229030
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    David Barton

    Hi, I'm David Barton PhD. I am a husband and father to three beautiful girls. I live in New Zealand and was born in South Africa. I have studied, Counselling and Psychology and have a PhD in Psychology from the University of Otago, Dunedin. I had a life changing event at the end of 2018 when I got diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer. The cancer was widespread. It also got into my spine and paralyzed me for a time. Recovery was hard, but now I am cancer free and walking, even running again. As a Christian I put me faith and trust in God. My recent books reflect this as I have written extensively about my journey to survive and what God has taught me along the way.

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    • 5/5
      In Jefferson Lies, Barton presents a clear agenda before presenting the information to back up his claims. He describes the misleading scholarship that has shaped a false narrative of Thomas Jefferson. I came away from the book understanding that Jefferson is - most definitely - a complex individual. As a result, this leaves opportunity for a slew of false statements about Jefferson.I was expecting, at some point, to understand where the controversy would originate...I never got there. The real issue is that Barton presents his explanation of Jefferson in a logically consistent manner, with sources to back up his claims. At the same time, he challenges the collectivist thinking that has protected sub-par scholars for far too long.My recommendation - and Barton's - is to go to the original sources and use basic hermeneutical tools to come to a conclusion of your own.
    • 3/5
      I'm rather confused at the point of writing a book ostensibly to debunk secular (leftist) myths about Thomas Jefferson just to bullshit and fake history to posit Jefferson was a great civil rights leader. Jefferson made no bones about his desire to remove blacks beyond the reach of mixture with whites and wanted them freed from bondage AND mass deported, but the author pretends this isn't the case and tries to fit Jefferson's antislavery view in conformity with Martin Luther Communist-style integrationism. Excluding that chapter, however, it's an illuminating read especially regarding the prolific place Christianity had in daily life in American institutions from the presidency to public universities and grade school education. The secular "freedom from religion" canard is shown as a carefully manufactured lie meant to promote a worldview by falsifying history. Sadly, the author engages in this himself regarding the racism chapter.