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 > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html