Thomas Jefferson
Rated 7.511 votes19971 season1h 30m
The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.
- First aired
- Feb 18, 1997
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- PBS
- Episodes
- 2
- Country
- US
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Feb 18, 1997Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, an aesthete, and an architect. As a young man, he was transformed by the fire of the Enlightenment into America’s most articulate voice for human liberty.
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