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Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, an aesthete, and an architect. As a young man, he was transformed by the fire of the Enlightenment into America’s most articulate voice for human liberty.

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Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of our enigmatic and brilliant third president.
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