Lewis's review is not troubling to me. I expected this sort of
sophistry, and I'll rebut it chapter and verse. If my book is just old
stuff, as Lewis wants you to believe, why did two magazines
(Smithsonian and American History) put it on their covers? People in
Charlottesville have said to me, "I never knew any of this." A
journalist said to me, "this changes everything." A historian who
knows Jefferson very well said to me, "the specialists have a lot of
explaining to do." Indeed.

Henry Wiencek


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Henry Wiencek's report of nail-factory discipline and the suppressed letter
> in The Farm Book were troubling, but some of the points made here by a
> long-time scholar of Jefferson and Monticello are troubling, too:
>
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/17/what-did-thomas-jefferson-really-think-about-slavery.html
>
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