David Sehat is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. His first book, The Myth of American Religious Freedom, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians. Visit DavidSehat.net.
"The Jefferson Rule is a fun, challenging, and thoughtful book . .
. a page-turner . . . Sehat provides readers an easy to understand,
pleasure-to-read discussion of how misinterpreting the intentions,
words, ideas and beliefs of the 'founding fathers' has created
countless problems for the United States as it progressed over the
past 239 years."-- "New York Journal of Books"
"A careful, and fascinating, historical analysis of one aspect of
American exceptionalism . . . well worth reading."
--Sanford Levinson "History Book Club"
David Sehat has found a fresh, meaningful way to write a concise
history of American politics. The Jefferson Rule instructs,
enlightens, and entertains.--Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff and
The War Lovers
Please, dear politicians, read David Sehat's The Jefferson Rule and
stop pretending that everything you say, believe and propose is
exactly what the Founders of our nation would say, believe and
propose. The Founders themselves would be amazed and appalled by
this. Sehat has written a splendid book--important, well-argued,
and offered at the right moment. 'Politicians create the Founders
in their own image', Sehat writes. They do, and they should
stop.--E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and
Why Americans Hate Politics
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