Colleagues,

Annette Gordon-Reed now has a review of Henry Wiencek's new book on Jefferson and slavery that takes on different elements of its argument from those Jan Lewis analyzed, but reaches similar conclusions about the flaws of its scholarship:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/10/henry_wiencek_s_the_master_of_the_mountain_thomas_jefferson_biography_debunked.html

--Jurretta Heckscher

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