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Article: SAFIRE NOVEL AN UNEVEN PORTRAIT OF AN EARLY POLITICAL JOURNALIST.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 22, 2000
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The name James Thomson Callender popped up in news stories out of Washington near the end of last month, as it does whenever there is new evidence that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with his slave, Sally Hemings.
That was nice timing for columnist-turned-novelist William Safire and his publisher, because it was Callender - the ``scandalmonger'' of Safire's title - who first published an account of the relationship in September 1802.
What Safire, the New York Times political columnist, has sought to do in ``Scandalmonger'' is to bring Callender out of the historical underworld so his impact on the events of his day can be assessed.
In ...