By pointing to the 1992 Jeffersonian Legacies collection of essays as a  
transitional moment in scholarship about Jefferson, Gordon-Reed modestly  
slights the importance of her Jefferson and Hemings: An American  
Controversy in 1997 .... but there is much here to ponder:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/10/henry_wiencek_s_the_master_of_the_mountain_thomas_jefferson_biography_debunked.single.html

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