Volume 42, Number 17 · November 2, 1995
The Sins of the Fathers
By Robert Stone
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
by Fox Butterfield
Knopf, 383 pp., $27.50
'I tremble for my country,' Thomas Jefferson, the slave-owning patriarch of American democracy, once declared, 'when I reflect that God is just.'
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