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America, in so many ways, has forgotten. Its roots, its purpose, its identity all have become shrouded behind a veil of political correctness bent on twisting the nation's founding, and its founders, to fit within a misshapen modern world.

The time has come to remember again.

In The Jefferson Lies, prominent historian David Barton sets out to correct the distorted image of a once-beloved founding father, Thomas Jefferson. To do so, Barton tackles seven myths head-on, including:

Did Thomas Jefferson really have a child by his young slave girl, Sally Hemings?
Did he write his own Bible, excluding the parts of Christianity with which he disagreed?
Was he a racist who opposed civil rights and equality for black Americans?
Did he, in his pursuit of separation of church and state, advocate the secularizing public life?

Through Jefferson's own words and the eyewitness testimony of contemporaries, Barton repaints a portrait of the man from Monticello as a visionary, an innovator, a man who revered Jesus, a classical Renaissance man and a man whose pioneering stand for liberty and God-given inalienable rights fostered a better world for this nation and its posterity. For America, the time to remember these truths again is now.

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David Barton is the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that presents America s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious, and constitutional heritage. He is the author of many best-selling books, including Original Intent, The Bulletproof George Washington, American History in Black and White, and The Question of Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers. He addresses more than 400 groups each year. Barton was named by Time magazine as one of America s 25 most influential evangelicals, and he has received numerous national and international awards, including Who s Who in Education and Daughters of the American Revolution s highest award, the Medal of Honor. David and his wife, Cheryl, have three grown children.

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson; Book Club (BCE/BOMC) edition (April 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781595554598
ISBN-13: 978-1595554598
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- #975 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > United States > US Presidents
- #1287 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Presidents & Heads of State

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Extensive documentation and examination of personal writings of Jefferson make it difficult to refute Barton's conclusions.

May 17, 2016

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This book is very heavily annotated. There are 78 pages of end notes included in the total 346 pages of text (22%). The author demonstrates that many of the contentions of other writers critical of Jefferson are based on single lines or phrases extracted from lengthy historical documents without considering the total context of the documents or are simply quoted from other authors without verifying their authenticity. Barton reprints extensive sections of original documents to show the context of the original document from which the single line or phrase is extracted. For example, in a lengthy letter to his nephew, Peter Carr, a sophomore at William and Mary whom Jefferson had raised as a son following the death of Peter's father Dabney, Jefferson advises Peter to "question with boldness even the existence of God." Secularists and antireligious authors have used this short phrase as proof that Jefferson himself doubted the existence of God. However, Barton prints an entire section of the letter, occupying 3 pages of text, that clearly show that Jefferson was telling Peter to determine for himself the existence of God, rather than simply relying on what he had been taught. A reading of the entire section of the letter leaves no doubt that Jeffferson, himself, had clearly concluded that God did, in fact, exist, and was simply suggesting that Peter examine the facts and make his own personal determination concerning God's existence. Another example of misinterpretation of Jefferson's writings involves the First Amendment regarding "separation of church and state." Many authors, and even the U.S. Supreme Court, have referred to Jefferson as the Father of the First Amendment or the architect of the First Amendment. However, most do not know, or have forgotten that although Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he was not involved in the writing of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights which contains the First Amendment. In fact, Jefferson was in Europe when those documents were penned. Jefferson later commented on the First Amendment, stating that it was his belief that the purpose of that amendment was to prohibit the intrusion of the government into religion, not to prevent the involvement of religion in government, but he was in no way involved in creating the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights. All in all, although Barton's beliefs are apparent in his writing, the extensive documentation makes it very difficult to disagree with his conclusions when examined from a neutral standpoint.

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Roni Batzion

Interesting facts and exploded myths about Jefferson

December 3, 2016

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This book was bought as a gift for a person who is a student of Jefferson and knows quite a lot of the polymath from Virginia. He enjoyed it and said he learned some things he never knew and enjoyed the book, which he read at one sitting, so I take this as a recommendation. The "lies" of the title are myths about Jefferson that the author explodes.

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Eye opening and exhaustively documented

July 13, 2017

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Read this book along with any biography you read of Jefferson. A truly eye-opening and exhaustively documented read. Fully 1/3 of the book is taken up by footnotes. I did some independent research in original source documents, including official records of Virginia and the Untied States, before reading this book and came to much the same conclusions as Barton did: Jefferson's legacy has been maligned and abused by liars & fake historians for 200 years. Don't believe the detractors of this book. No honest person can examine the actual record (as opposed to the very selective "record" presented on television and in public schools) and conclude that Jefferson was opposed to the public expression of faith and religion even by government officials in the course of their public duties.

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I've heard David lecture on history, and while this ...

March 31, 2017

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I've heard David lecture on history, and while this subject got a bit long simply because there is a LOT of information that has been forgotten, ignored, and purposely changed to suit someone's opinion, it was a lengthy read. If you ever get a chance to go to one of his lectures, DO. If he tells you something, he has the documents to back it up and he makes it interesting too.

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This novel is informative in manners that most college classes ...

April 24, 2018

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This novel is informative in manners that most college classes don't cover. I researched certain chapter to fact check some of the claims, only to find out that it's factual.

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Robert L Rapuano

Read it and pass it on.

March 28, 2016

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Well this is a book you will either love (conservatives) or hate (progressives, liberals). Anyway it should not be about ideology but about truth. I can't say I read all the footnotes (of which there are plenty) but if you are going to make an argument against the author it is best to address those.

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This is a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the original ...

November 15, 2017

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This is a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the original Jefferson documents and archives that substantiate the refutation of the myths surrounding Jefferson's views on religion, slavery, and personal integrity in his relationships with superiors and subordinates. A thoroughly engaging read and very well written.

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December 12, 2016

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I have an immense level of respect for David Barton, even though Leftists like to slander him at every given opportunity. Thomas Jefferson has long been held up by the Liberal Elite, as the purest example for a secular American society. But through his own research into actual surviving transcripts from the American Revolution, Barton reveals a notably different man. In some ways, Jefferson was a contradiction, saying one thing in his youth and the opposite as he grew older. He did have concerns about the melding of religion and politics, likely because of how the King of England oppressed the British Founders. But he was no secularist, writing at one point, "God, who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"

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