A biographical film about The United States' influential and profoundly enigmatic Founding Father.A biographical film about The United States' influential and profoundly enigmatic Founding Father.A biographical film about The United States' influential and profoundly enigmatic Founding Father.
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- TriviaBlythe Danner also portrayed Thomas Jefferson's wife, Martha, in 1776 (1972). Her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow plays Jefferson's granddaughter in this series and Jefferson's daughter, Patsy, in Jefferson in Paris (1995)
- GoofsIn recounting the story of the 1800 presidential election, the narrator says "In early 1801, the Electoral College met in the new Capitol to pick the next president." The Electoral College does not meet in Washington, D.C. The electors from each state meet within their respective states in December of each election year (in this case 1800), to cast their votes for President. What the program should have said was that in early 1801 Congress met in the new Capitol to count the votes of the Electoral College.
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Thomas Jefferson: "The life of a cabbage is paradise".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Ken Burns: America's Storyteller (2017)
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Viewed by who's eyes
In reading this review I find myself asking what this viewer is really looking for. In one voice we are told the production show Jefferson "warts and all" and in the next appears to condemn the work for showing he was a Southern with slaves and that his relationship with those slaves (i.e. Sally Hemings) and his animosity towards other "Founding Fathers" as inappropriate at the least and cruel at the worst. This viewer states more of Jefferson's own words should have been used - which would have been wonderful, but if this viewer truly knew Jefferson's history, this viewer would also know that Jefferson destroyed nearly everything he had ever written about or two anyone along with nearly everything anyone wrote to him. Therefore we can only piece together a picture of this man by others of the period who wrote "about" him, not necessarily to him as well as records found in France, England and our own Archives. An American who wishes to examine American history is hard pressed to find the facts which would make our history clear and easy to understand and perhaps that is for the better as it forces us to look closely and most of all to think.
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- Jul 19, 2008
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