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Old 07-06-2008, 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted by cabotcat View Post
Watch the DVD and allow for poetic license. Read all of the TJ books and decide for yourself.

FYI - The Ben Franklin prose seems to be an accurate portrayal.
I still think TJ was out of step with the times. All the things he was against are what made America great: Banks, Industry/industrial revolution....cities..

His agrarian utopia would've kept us a backwards people during the coming nineteenth and twentieth centuries, like the Russians were.
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