[SeekAndFind]

INTRODUCTION FROM AMAZON.COM

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 scholarship was launched by bloggers and a handful of non-historian academics.

What happened next was shocking virtually unprecedented in modern American publishing history. Under siege from critics, the publisher spiked the book and recalled it from the retail shelves from coast to coast. The Jefferson Lies is thus a history book that made history becoming possibly the first book of its kind to be victimized by the scourge of political correctness.

But more than three years later, it s back as an updated paperback edition in which Barton sets the record straight and takes on the critics who savaged his work.

And that s just part of the story. Why did this book spark so much controversy?

It could only happen in an America that has forgotten its past. 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, beyond recognition.

The time has come to remember again.

This new paperback edition of The Jefferson Lies re-documents Barton's research and conclusions as sound and his premises true. It tackles seven myths about Thomas Jefferson head-on, and answers pressing questions about this incredible statesman 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 of 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 is now.

[darkwing104]

One is not allowed to contradict the dogma of the left. Looking forward to reading this.

[mountainlion]

I read the book, well at least to the Footnotes. They got boring. David Barton did an outstanding job as usual.

[miss marmelstein]

Just bought the last copy before it’s pulled, lol! Actually, it’s six bucks on Kindle.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I just don’t have a problem at all with Jefferson being the father of some of those white Hemmings kids.

[centurion316]

I am a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson’s grandfather, making the President my first cousin, six times removed. The man who did the most to debunk the DNA “proof” was a Jefferson genealogist, Herb Barger. He demonstrated that Jefferson could not be the only possible father, but that the most likely suspect was his brother, Randolph. The main villain in the drama was a Black woman historian named Annette Gordon-Reed who was employeed at Monticello. She had an agenda and since it was identical to the agenda of the Left, she became both a hero and an impeccable authority. She was neither, but that didn’t slow down those who wanted to destroy Jefferson’ legacy.

[loveliberty2]

Just one citation we might review:

" If no action is to be deemed virtuous for which malice can imagine a sinister motive, then there never was a virtuous action; no, not even in the life of our Saviour Himself. But He has taught us to judge the tree by its fruit, and to leave motives to Him who can alone see into them." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Martin Van Buren, Jun. 29, 1824

[sasportas]

Jefferson was a Freemason, a Deist, pro-French Revolution, and pro-Illuminati.

As a Deist and a Mason, he believed there was a supreme being, but He wasn’t the one God of the Bible.

He didn’t believe in the miraculous parts of the Bible, especially the virgin birth.

He famously had his own “Bible,” in which he cut out the parts that didn’t fit his deistic and Masonic view.

[Bigg Red]

mark

[Pelham]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-thomas-jefferson-created-his-own-bible-5659505/?no-ist

“Thomas Jefferson, together with several of his fellow founding fathers, was influenced by the principles of deism, a construct that envisioned a supreme being as a sort of watchmaker who had created the world but no longer intervened directly in daily life. A product of the Age of Enlightenment, Jefferson was keenly interested in science and the perplexing theological questions it raised. Although the author of the Declaration of Independence was one of the great champions of religious freedom, his belief system was sufficiently out of the mainstream that opponents in the 1800 presidential election labeled him a “howling Atheist.”

“In fact, Jefferson was devoted to the teachings of Jesus Christ. But he didn’t always agree with how they were interpreted by biblical sources, including the writers of the four Gospels, whom he considered to be untrustworthy correspondents. So Jefferson created his own gospel by taking a sharp instrument, perhaps a penknife, to existing copies of the New Testament and pasting up his own account of Christ’s philosophy, distinguishing it from what he called “the corruption of schismatizing followers