Thomas Jefferson's views on life, liberty, happiness

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Our Guest, Eric S. Petersen had access to and researched the entire body of Thomas Jefferson's published writings and has compiled a book entitled Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness. It contains 34 chapters on Jefferson's thoughts on his core principles such as patriotism, liberty, hope, religion, humility and gratitude. The result is a distillation of the wisdom of one of America's greatest political thinkers. Eric Petersen joins us now:

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