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Part 1

Season 1 Episode 1 | 1hr 27m 13s

Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, an aesthete, and an architect. As a young man, he was transformed by the fire of the Enlightenment into America’s most articulate voice for human liberty.

Aired: 01/31/97 | Expires: 08/31/25
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