Thanks Melinda. I subscribe to the NEW YORKER and just sent them my letter
to their editor, about 2,000 characters of information from, and
recommending they read THE JEFFERSON-HEMINGS MYTH and JEFFERSON VINDICATED.
I had some eye surgery a week ago and am going light on the reading and it
might have taken me a few weeks to get to Lepore's review of HEMINGSES OF
MONTICELLO,
(Ms.) Adrian Zolkover
----- Original Message -----
From: "Melinda Skinner" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Annette Gordon-Reed praised by Edmund Morgan
> There's also an interesting article on the book in the New Yorker:
> http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=8220 The Hemingses of
> Monticello: An American Family 8221 (Norton 36 35)
>
>
> --
> Melinda C. P. Skinner
> Richmond, VA
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
>> Posted at History News Network, Monday, September 22, 2008 Annette
>> Gordon-Reed : Edmund Morgan calls her one of the best historians of her
>> generation <http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/54782.html>
>>
>> Source: *Marie Morgan and Edmund S. Morgan in the New York Review of
>> Books
>> in the course of a review of Annette Gordon-Reed's new book, The
>> Hemingses
>> of
>> Monticello*<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21855?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Ca
>> mpaign+Monitor&utm_content=91964597&utm_campaign=Joseph+Lelyveld+on+John+%26+Sar
>> ah%2c+Michael+Chabon+on+Obama&utm_term=Jefferson%26%238217%3bs+Concubine>(10-9-0
>> 8)
>>
>> The Hemingses of Monticello is a brilliant book. It marks the author as
>> one
>> of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this
>> generation. Not least of Annette Gordon-Reed's achievements is her
>> ability
>> to bring fresh perspectives to the life of a man whose personality and
>> character have been scrutinized, explained, and justified by a host of
>> historians and biographers. They have struggled to illuminate, and
>> sometimes
>> to gloss over, the dark places in his life. Like many upright public
>> figures
>> who know they are pure and their enemies vile, he was capable of
>> deviousness
>> and treachery. He instigated the savage attacks by the anti-Federalist
>> National Gazette editor Philip Freneau on John Adams, once his fast
>> friend,
>> and was flummoxed rather than ashamed at being caught out paying Freneau
>> to
>> be his mouthpiece. Such actions gave rise in Jefferson biographies to
>> characterizations like "enigma" and "sphinx."
>>
>> The full review is at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21855?email
>>
>> --
>> Jon Kukla
>> www.JonKukla.com
>>
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