In this episode of History Shorts, we sit down with acclaimed historian Andrew Burstein to discuss his newest book, Being Thomas Jefferson, a deeply human portrait of one of America's most complex founders.

Moving beyond marble statues and textbook myths, Burstein invites us inside Jefferson's inner world: his ambitions and anxieties, his brilliance and blind spots, his ideals and contradictions. Together, we explore how Jefferson understood himself, how he navigated power, friendship, politics, and aging, and how a man who wrote so eloquently about liberty could remain entangled in slavery and silence.

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