The Jefferson Lies

Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson

By: David Barton

Narrated by: David Barton

Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

The American public was nearly deprived of the opportunity to hear this book.

In 2012, popular historian David Barton set out to correct what he saw as the distorted image of a once-beloved Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, in what became a New York Times best-selling book, The Jefferson Lies.

Despite the wildly popular success of the original hardcover edition, or perhaps because of it, a campaign to discredit Barton's scholarship was launched by bloggers and a handful of non-historian academics.

What happened next was shocking, virtually unprecedented in modern American publishing history. Under siege from critics, the publisher spiked the book and recalled it from the retail shelves from coast to coast. The Jefferson Lies is thus a history book that made history, becoming possibly the first book of its kind to be victimized by the scourge of political correctness.

But more than three years later, it's back as an updated edition in which Barton sets the record straight and takes on the critics who savaged his work.

And that's just part of the story. Why did this book spark so much controversy?

It could only happen in an America that has forgotten its past. Its roots, its purpose, its identity, all have become shrouded behind a veil of political correctness bent on twisting the nation's founding, and its Founders, beyond recognition.

The time has come to remember again.

This new audio edition of The Jefferson Lies re-documents Barton's research and conclusions as sound, and his premises true. It tackles seven myths about Thomas Jefferson head-on and answers pressing questions about this incredible statesman, including:

• Did Thomas Jefferson really have a child by his young slave girl, Sally Hemings?
• Did he write his own Bible, excluding the parts of Christianity with which he disagreed?
• Was he a racist who opposed civil rights and equality for Black Americans?
• Did he, in his pursuit of separation of church and state, advocate the secularizing of public life

Through Jefferson's own words and the eyewitness testimony of contemporaries, Barton repaints a portrait of the man from Monticello as a visionary, an innovator, a man who revered Jesus, a classical Renaissance man, and a man whose pioneering stand for liberty and God-given inalienable rights fostered a better world for this nation and its posterity. For America, the time to remember these truths is now.

©2012, 2016 David Barton (P)2016 David Barton

Fake news just didn’t happen in the last election

This book shows how Thomas Jefferson was viciously libeled and slandered by people in his own time and how those lies continue to be perpetuated to this day by liberals and secularists for their own political gain. Barton uses primary sources in their entirety and with proper context proving his points about Jefferson. He expertly refute those who say that his work is not accurate. A great read and one that all Americans should read to find out what an amazing and complicated man Jefferson truly was.

Jefferson (and his times) Live again!!

While this is not a complete Biography, it is a wonderful correction of the many obvious falsehoods that have been spread about this great man. David Barton has done all the work and research for you. The truth awaits within!
David And a Team of great voice actors, bring Jefferson and his times to the listener. All that was missing was a musical score and sound effects and this could practically have been an audio drama.
I heard the Original (1 reader) version and while that was good, It was boring by comparison, this was SO MUCH more engaging, with David reading his own work, a "sage voice" to rival that of David McCullough. This is how ALL Biographical / history audio books should be done.

A true “must read”

Fantastic book! Anybody interested in founding father history should read this book to keep from getting swept into the current of misinformation or to climb out of it.

Very inquisitive

I enjoyed the book and details to rebuttal the modern view of Thomas Jefferson.I would have loved to see the articles from publication on the retracted story of his dna.

Fantastic!

So well researched written. Great author-read and actor-enhanced audio. I bought both the book and audio. Many crucially important portions that Barton and team have researched and compiled from original source materials. This 2016 edition is the one to get. One warning: be prepared for frequent stops as you listen and then pull over to find and mark to share. So worth the investment of both time and bucks.

Real History

This is real history that looks at context and doesn’t judge Jefferson’s entire life by lone statements taken out of context. David Barton is a great historian and I’ll continue to read his books.

Hard work in obj research vs. lazy attitudes

Enjoyed the deep research in this book and convinced me that i don't know what I don't know.

Amazing

This book is written by a historian and someone who has access to the primary sources of President Jefferson and I personally loved the entire thing. I learned so much about this amazing American President and look forward to sharing it with all my friends and family. Especially my children

Great book with great source material

This book was top notch. Some of the information I have never heard anyone mention regarding Jefferson. The best part was the source material used. He went straight to the origonal documents and letters, using several to make his points, without just taking one sentence or phrase.

I also enjoyed the narration

awesome

Struggled with listening to some of the readers raspy voices. otherwise tremendously inspiring and appreciate the hard work.