Article: Of human bondage.(Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power)(In Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America)(Book Review)

"Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power ****

GARRY WILLS Houghton Mifflin, November, 256 pages

In Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. **** 1/2

HENRY WIENCEK Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November, 416 pages

THE FOUNDING FATHERS WILL NEVER BE the same. Chipping away at the primary pair of Mount Rushmore totems, these revisionist histories portray George Washington and Thomas Jefferson less as Olympian patricians and Enlightenment philosopher-kings than as Southern partisan politicians and capitalist landowners ever vigilant about their property. That property included slaves--hundreds of ...

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