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On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)

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Thomas Jefferson - The Founding Father of the United States

Thomas jefferson was perhaps the most towering intellectual figure in american life during the 18 hundreds. He couldn't imagine white and black people living together as equals. ibram kendy says, jefferson's book espousing his ideas about the superiority of white people were the most read non fiction book in America well into the mid nineteenth century.

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