Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974
Uncle Thomas's Cabin
By Garry Wills
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
by Fawn M. Brodie
Norton, 591 pp., $12.50
Two vast things, each wondrous in itself, combine to make this book a prodigy—the author's industry, and her ignorance. One can only be so intricately wrong by deep study and long effort, enough to make Ms. Brodie the fasting hermit and very saint of ignorance. The result has an eerie perfection, as if all the world's greatest builders had agreed to rear, with infinite skill, the world's ugliest building.
Review, 2565 words
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