Thomas Jefferson: Pragmatist or Visionary?
How should we view Thomas Jefferson? Colin Bonwick offers his assessment of the man as America's third president, party leader and Enlightenment enthusiast.
Thomas Jefferson believed he knew the value of his own work. He described himself on his tombstone as:
author of the Declaration of American Independence [,] of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia, because by these, as testimonials that I have lived I wish most to be remembered.
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