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Read this excerpt from Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard.

"I think it is Montaigne who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head," he wrote to Edmund Randolph. "I am sure it is true as to everything political, and shall endeavor to estrange myself to everything of that character." Since that time there have been in American politics many instances of politicians who left for a hunting party, or retired to their farms in order to avoid responsibility.

Which character in Fever 1793 is used to contrast this perspective?

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