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Over at World Net Daily, David Barton says that [Ted] Cruz is the candidate who comes closest to Jefferson and what he believes were the third president’s principles on “debt, religious liberty, and the war on Islam.” Barton has been elevated to “historian and Thomas Jefferson scholar” and uses his WND platform to assert that the … Continue reading “David Barton: Thomas Jefferson Would Like Ted Cruz for President”
To promote David Barton’s second edition of The Jefferson Lies, World Net Daily, Glenn Beck, and David Barton claim the first edition was pulled from publication by publisher Thomas Nelson due to ideologically motivated attacks by liberals. World Net Daily: Despite the wildly popular success of the original hardcover edition, or perhaps because of it, … Continue reading “David Barton's Conservative Critics: Debunking the Liberal Attack Claims”
Late last night, World Net Daily published another “exclusive” promo piece for David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies. This one focuses on Thomas Jefferson’s relationship to his slaves and repeats Barton’s overconfident denial that Jefferson fathered any of Sally Heming’s children. We did not take up that claim in Getting Jefferson Right because there is no … Continue reading “A Challenge to WND and David Barton on Thomas Jefferson and Slavery”
Although World Net Daily lists January 12 as the release date for the second edition of David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies, it is now available on Amazon. I ordered the Kindle version and found a serious flaw within minutes of reading Barton’s response to our book Getting Jefferson Right. Barton claims that I recruited Jay … Continue reading “No, David Barton, I Did Not Recruit Jay Richards”
In his second edition of The Jefferson Lies, David Barton provides a lengthy critique of our work in Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President. We intend to use that material in our own second edition which I hope to publish sometime in 2016. In response to Barton’s new edition, I am going … Continue reading “New Endorsement of Getting Jefferson Right – John D. Wilsey”