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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1524)	10/1/1998 11:35:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1533

Hello; anybody home? Is nothing happening out there, or is everybody on another thread?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1524)	10/12/1998 12:22:00 PM
From: sean o'connor	Respond to of 1533

bp, sorry for the delayed response. I had completely forgotten about that post. It exhausted me. I become emotionally drained when I consider the consequences of a populous so misinformed or ignorant that they can even compare the likes of Clinton to the giants who founded this nation. These men literally risked their lives and their fortunes(Billy Dale,Ron Brown,Vince Foster,Jim McDougall notwithstanding). Anyway, Saul Padover has 2 biographies. The second, Thomas Jefferson, A Great American's Life And Ideas, is essentially a commercialized version of the first, no footnotes, organized into 14 chapters, each presenting a period in Jefferson's life. Written pre-TV culture, the prose is tight and concise. 187 paperback pages deliver mucho information. I find many older "history" books have this same characteristic, well constructed prose, straight forward and easy to understand. Padover on Jefferson, "He was a mathematician, surveyor, architect, paleontologist, prosodist, lawyer, philosopher, farmer, fiddler and inventor. He set up an educational system; he built a university; he founded a great political party; he helped design the national capital; he was instrumental in establishing America's coinage; he doubled the territory of the United States; he invented machines and gadgets: he collected scientific materials in the fields of zoology; geology and anthropology; he wrote a classic essay on poetry; he codified the legal system of his native State. Everything interested him; nothing was alien to his mind." He was a Member of Congress, Governor of his State, Ambassador, Secretary of State, Vice-President and President. He was the author of both the Declaration of Independence and Virginia's famous statute for religious freedom. In his spare time, he wrote brilliant letters( his total correspondence runs 18,000 pieces of mail). He devoted his life to the democratic ideal,"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man". He lived up to his oath.