Comments on In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex
Scandal:

 

Several Va-Hist members responded to Paul Finkelman's request for the
name of the publisher, and I have already forwarded the first of those
messages to the list. Here are some messages that contain additional
comments or information.

 

 

From Steven T. Corneliussen [[log in to unmask]]

I just bought a copy this afternoon. The title page says:

THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS

St. Martin's Press

New York

And while I have the floor, please let me note for the record that on p.


21, Mr. Hyland has botched his report of my view of the DNA. (This
problem is only so important to others, I recognize, but it's obviously
very important to me.) I have never "called the DNA results 'science
abuse.'" As Hyland himself clearly understands -- making it bizarre that
he'd misreport it about me -- the abuse of science's authority
concerning the DNA lay not in the important but nondispositive molecular
findings themselves, but in their misreporting as dispositive by the
editors of Nature and later by others. (Mr. Hyland's report about my
views of the Neiman statistical study appears later, and at first glance
that report seems OK.) I may have more to say about this book later. 

Thanks for the chance to comment.

 

 

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Product Details

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (June 9, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0312561008

ISBN-13: 978-0312561000

Product Dimensions: 

9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #113,279 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

 

 

From Henry Wiencek [[log in to unmask]]

It's a Thomas Dunne Book - Dunne has an imprint at St. Martin's Press.

Hyland is a lawyer, published a legal journal article about Hemings a
couple of years ago. I read it and didn't see anything really new in it.
He gathered up many of the points which the defenders had already been
making and put together a "lawyer's brief" for the defense. I don't know
if he has found anything new for the book. I'm suspending all judgement
until I read it. The defenders have some good points which the Hemings
partisans, as I call them for the sake of convenience, have not really
been able to adequately explain. But many of the points Hyland made in
the journal article don't really stand up in my judgment. I look forward
to reading his book to see if he has taken his research and arguments
further.


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