Jon Meacham

Dec 7, 2012

Friday Roundup, December 7th

Blog Post
by Richard Reinsch / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Bryan Caplan, James Q. Wilson, Jon Meacham, Lincoln's Code, Richard Reinsch, Spies and Commissars, The Upside-Down Constitution, Thomas Jefferson

The next Liberty Law Talk is with John Fabian Witt on Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History.

Energy in the Executive: Don’t miss Jeremy Bailey’s review in this space of Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The

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Dec 2, 2012

Energy in the Executive: Thomas Jefferson’s Transformative Presidency

Book Review
by Jeremy Bailey / 2 Comments

Filed Under: Executive Power, James Madison, Jon Meacham, Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Jon Meacham concludes his Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power with quotations praising Jefferson from Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Ronald Reagan. For Meacham, these were our “finest presidents,” and they looked to Jefferson to ground their own transformational presidencies. In …