[Retired Greyhound]

I’m reading “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” by Edmund Morris right now.

It’s an amazing book.

TR was a freak. He despised Thomas Jefferson and Jeffersonian government. He much preferred the Alexander Hamilton model.

TR was a major progressive and was a supporter of eugenics.

Fascinating man, but very dangerous in his grandiose thinking.

[Sam Gamgee]

Interesting you bring up Hamilton. Hamilton was of the pro-British camp while Jefferson wanted to align with France. I think for all Jefferson's qualities, he was wrong about France, but that is another topic.

But Jefferson was right about rejecting the pro-Federal government model of Hamilton. I think present history shows that Jefferson was right to warn us about the strong federal government that Hamilton was so much in favor of.