The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson

by David Barton

Book Overview

The American public was nearly deprived of the opportunity to read this book.

In 2012 popular historian David Barton set out to correct what he saw as the distorted image of a once-beloved Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, in what became a New York Times best-selling book, The Jefferson Lies.

Despite the wildly popular success of the original hardcover edition, or perhaps because of it, a campaign to discredit Barton's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944229027
• ISBN13: 9781944229023
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: WND Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Tier 1 Book, Author, and Research!

David Barton has the largest private collection of Founding Era documents in the world. He studies and uses them. He looks at things through a constitutional, biblical, and historical perspective. He has been a subject matter expert in several Supreme Court cases because of his scholarship that only the deceived or ignorant refute. This book is pure gold. After reading it, and investigating the scholarship that went into it, I recommend it to everyone. It is such an easy read too. Mr. Barton, like Mr. Jefferson, have so much slander and libel going on about them, but Mr. Barton's primary sources used to back up his claims are indisputable. I love that in this edition he also takes on some of his critic's arguments against the book. He soundly lays them to rest using not opinions or regurgitated legend but primary sources that you can read for your self, mostly on the Wall Builders website or the Smithsonian. This book is one of my favorites! It is very edifying.