Revolutionary Revelations - Thomas Jefferson Reconsidered
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The anonymous essay that WaPo cites in the OP proved impossible to find online...(!?)
Philip Mazzei, the Pragmatic Propagandist, 2018
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01796549v2/document#:~:text=e...