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Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third President of the United States and the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell

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• A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert

  Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and a keen naturalist. He hoped that the huge beasts whose bones were found in America still lived in the unexplored lands of the West.

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