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#1546 The Founders and the Cutting Room Floor
Listening to America
Benjamin Franklin's Vision for the Country
"I see Jefferson as a utopian. And in his mind's eye, he has a picture of the yeoman farmer working in the field by day and reading Homer in the original Greek at night," she says. "You can't live on this side of Auschwitz and Hiroshima and really hold that argument without a number of important footnotes." She adds: "He was a utopian pragmatist and a pragmatic utopian so that he was saved because he did understand this concept that you can dream America but you can't necessarily convince everybody to go along"
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