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Baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its ab...

are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. they lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas's jefferson's travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. great. well, thank you. thank you scuppernong and and c-span. thank you everybody for watc...

watching. so. so yes, this book is about it's about me following jefferson's travels across europe and it's really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we don't often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president, but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. it was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. so jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he almost didn't travel to fr...

jefferson, we will probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president. it gave me a chance to explore, middle aged in the 1780's, jefferson was going into his 40s. he almost did not travel to france at all, he had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador for the united states and declined it both times. there were two traumatic events that really changed his mind and changed his whole life. in the early 1780's, that led him to take his trip. one was he was governor of virginia for two years during the revolutionary war. it wound up being a very di...

author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. >> and now for the men, event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today. he's the author of in pursuit of jefferson, traveling three years with the most perplexing founding father. joining us today from fairfax, virginia, where he lives with his wife and children. and in his words, they live quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas jefferson's travel advice across europe. so he's going to tell you a little bore bit more about the book and resource ...