Kirpal Singh’s Reviews > Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power > Status Update

He "can best be understood by recalling that his passion for the people and his regard for republicanism belonged to a man who believed that there were forces afoot...that sought to undermine the rights of man by reestablishing the rule of priests and nobles and kings. His opposition to John Adams and to Alexander Hamilton, to the British and to financial speculators, grew out of this fundamental concern."