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Colin Kidd, 30 October 1997
Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency
by Stephen Knott.
Oxford, 258 pp., £19.50, November 1996,0 19 510098 0 Show More
by Stephen Knott.
Oxford, 258 pp., £19.50, November 1996,
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 367 pp., £25, December 1996,1 85619 637 2 Show More
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 367 pp., £25, December 1996,
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph Ellis.
Knopf, 365 pp., $26, February 1997,0 679 44490 4 Show More
by Joseph Ellis.
Knopf, 365 pp., $26, February 1997,
Slave Laws in Virginia
by Philip Schwarz.
Georgia, 253 pp., $40, November 1996,0 8203 1831 0 Show More
by Philip Schwarz.
Georgia, 253 pp., $40, November 1996,
“... Jefferson has even won new converts among the ranks of the hawks. In Secret and Sanctioned, Stephen Knott, aware of the difficulty of reconciling necessary covert government operations with an open democracy, invokes the history of clandestine activities from the Founding era through to 1882. Not only does he explode the legend of pre-Cold War ... ”