Author Barton clearly, convincingly, and compellingly ... with tons of documentation ... debunks and defeats some critical current conceptions we've been inculturated to think about Thomas Jefferson. Barton's apologetic addresses issues including allegations of Jefferson's paternity of several of his slave-girl Sally Hemmings, the secularity of U.of Virginia, TJ's supposed championing of separation of church and state, authoring his own "bible", and of course his anti-Christian deism. Barton lends thorough counter to these and more misconceptions, lending enough data and evidence without burying the reader in academic research and minutiae.
The book does however illuminate the key strategies and techniques used by anti-religious academics to "revise" and rewrite history that it might better fit their views and meet their progressive, liberal lessons and syllabi. Terms including deconstructionism, American exceptionalism, modernism, minimalism, and more are explained that readers would have a more conceptual/theoretical idea of both why and how so-called historians bastardize, spin, and too often re-write history to suit their values and views.
Still, as we are sadly discovering nearly every day in watching the world we live in and the escalating secular attacks on Christianity and proponents like Barton, many angry haters will write-off without even reading this outstanding book because of its author. And they will pooh-pooh the book's powerful points and attack its credibility. They will likely do so using the same minimalistic and deconstructionalist tactics of those who aspire to destroy and/or misconstrue biblical verse, to make their personal, usually humanistic perspectives. You know, isolating that passage where God allows babies to be slaughtered ... what kind of god would allow that, right? ... without putting it in the context of God's warning time and time again that he would literally eliminate an evil, sinful tribe. And that is part of Barton's mission, i.e. to help people to learn factual, oft twisted history and to understand islolated vignettes in context of how they were intended by Jefferson vs. the so-called historians who prefer to transform Thomas J's POV posthumously.
Know that the author of this review is an unabashed follower of Christ and fan of Thomas Jefferson. I'm glad Barton has taken on the not insignificant challenge of correcting a corrupting culture on critical fallacies of Jefferson. And being affirmed that I'm following in Jefferson's foot-steps as he sought to follow Jesus Christ in his many-faceted roles of establishing and leading our nation.
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Proof is in this book
President Jefferson did NOT father any of Sally Heming’s children.I used this book as part of my research regarding the history being negatively rewritten. I did not believe what I was hearing. I’ve had other positive experiences with David Barton before this book. He is an amazing historian with an impeccable memory. He tells us the truth.
