Thomas Jefferson: Conservative

Jefferson the agrarian liberal. But unfortunatelynwhat Parrington discoverednwas an imaginary combination ofnFrench philosophe and midwesternnpopulist, not the planter of AlbemarlenCounty. Parrington, Claude Bowers andna host of other worthies soon turnednJefferson into the patron saint of Wilsonism,nthe New Deal and what currentlynpasses for liberalism.nThus, by a strange piling-up . . .