interview with dr. Garrett Ward Sheldon, on Thomas Jefferson

By A Colleague

interview with Dr. Garrett Ward Sheldon

Did Thomas Jefferson have a political philosophy? Dr. Garrett Ward Sheldon says that Jefferson did. Not only that, Dr. Sheldon claims that it was "uniquely American." In this episode of The Real Thomas Jefferson, Donna Vitek and Col. Holowchak discuss Dr. Sheldon's 1991 book, The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson--a book that the colonel thinks should be required reading for Jeffersonian mavens--by interviewing Dr. Sheldon!

https://youtu.be/ModvB6YGygI

M. Andrew Holowchak, Ph.D.

Books on TJ:

Sally Hemings, Race, & Woke Historiography: The Abbeville Primer to Woke Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson and His Younger Brother, A Study in Cosmopolitanism and Parochialism: Complete Correspondence with Critical Commentary, 2024

Thomas Jefferson and Native Americans: Beneficent Paternalism or Genocide? 2023

"The disease of liberty": Thomas Jefferson, History, and Liberty, A Philosophical Analysis, 2023

Thomas Jefferson: Guardian of the Natural Bridge, 2023

Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia: A Prolegomena, 2023

Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway: A Gordian Love Affair: Complete Correspondence with Critical Commentary, 2023

Thomas Jefferson, Taste, and the Fine Arts, 2023

Thomas Jefferson on Gardens, Poetry, and Music (contributing editor), 2022

The Battle for Historical Truth about Thomas Jefferson: The Diary of a Canceled Scholar, 2022

Thomas Jefferson in Paris: The Ministry of a Virginian "Looker on," 2022

The Scholars' Thomas Jefferson: Vital Writings of a Vital American, 2021

Did Thomas Jefferson Really Father Sally Hemings' Black Children? A Scholarly Analysis of the Historical and Genetic Evidence, 2021

American Messiah: The Surprisingly Simple Religious Views of Thomas Jefferson, 202

Rethinking Thomas Jefferson's Views on Race and Slavery: "God's justice can not sleep forever," 2020

Thomas Jefferson: Psychobiography of an American Lion, 2020

Thirty-Six More Essays, Plus another, on the Probing Mind of Thomas Jefferson, 2020

Thirty-Six Short Essays on the Probing Mind of Thomas Jefferson, 2020

The Cavernous Mind of Thomas Jefferson, an American Savant, 2019

Jefferson's Bible: Text with Introduction and Critical Commentary, 2018

Thomas Jefferson, Moralist, 2017

Jefferson's Political Philosophy and the Metaphysics of Utopia, 2017

The Elusive Thomas Jefferson: The Man behind the Myths, 2017

Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education: A Utopian Dream, 2014

Thomas Jefferson: Uncovering His Unique Philosophy and Vision, 2014

Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson's Writings, 2013

Framing a Legend: Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, 2013

Dutiful Correspondent: Philosophical Essays on Thomas Jefferson, 2013