Well I for one thought it was brilliant, but it is really hard to say as much as you would like in just 850 words.  

The most distirbing aspect of the Op-Ed are the obscene, nasty, racist, and anti-Semitic emails I have received, including some from people who proudly declare they are grads of UVa. Hard to imagine what Mr. Jefferson would think of such behavior.

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Paul Finkelman
John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History 
Duke University School of Law
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Box 90360
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ron Roizen
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:05 PM
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Subject: [VA-HIST] "The Monster of Monticello"

In the great tradition of "Let's you and him fight," what did list members think of Paul Finkelman's NY Times opinion piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/opinion/the-real-thomas-jefferson.html?src
=recg&_r=0 ?

Ron Roizen
Wallace, Idaho

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