A combo of two of the finest - The Aspen Institute (Ideas Festival) & John author John Meacham Thomas Jefferson:
Some favorite thoughts from the talk:
“[H]e is immortal, yet because of his flaws and his sins and his failures...he was not all that he could be...but no politician, no human being ever is. Despite his shortcomings and all the inevitable disappointments and mistakes, he left America and the world a better place than it had been when he found it.”
“That he failed to live a perfect live or deliver on the promise of the Declaration...that he has been condemned as a hypocrite...in the eyes of history are to my mind reasons engage with him...not excoriate.”
“Jefferson provided the poetry of the Revolution.”
“Jefferson was against federal power until he wielded it.”
JARuppert