![]() ![]() ![]() There was, O’Brien insisted, no place in an increasingly post-racial and multicultural America for such a hypocrite.Ī year later, Annette Gordon-Reed unsettled matters still further in Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. ![]() Arguing that Thomas Jefferson was a radical who supported genocide and a racist to boot, he demanded that the founder be toppled from the pantheon of American heroes. In an essay written in 1996 for the Atlantic, the Irish politician and scholar Conor Cruise O’Brien lobbed a literary grenade into the stately field of Jefferson studies. ![]()
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