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Where Are the Intellectual Giants?

Where Are the Intellectual Giants?
Detail, “Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull (1819), depicting the Committee of Five—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. Public domain
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The weekend was glorious thanks to a book I had long possessed but never read. It is the biography of Thomas Jefferson, by Albert Jay Nock. It was published in 1926, when Nock was at the height of his literary power. His voice loomed large in American public life. The biography is brilliant. It’s not long and doesn’t follow a predictable linear path. With incredible detail on correspondence and life events, it is also focused on his ideas and the range of Jefferson’s astonishing achievements regarding human freedom, industry, aesthetics, architecture, and education.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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