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In honor of President’s Day, biographer Jon Meacham explores Thomas Jefferson’s complicated legacy and suggests how we might reclaim the Jeffersonian insistence that political leaders be conversant with the philosophical and cultural currents of their time. Meacham wrote the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power.”
Tricia Johnson is editorial director of public programs at the Aspen Institute.
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