The authors who have banded together to "defend" Jefferson from the "travesty" of the "charge" that he and Sally Hemings had a sexual liaison that produced children have done all involved a sad disservice. The personal hostility of the authors to such scholars as Annette Gordon-Reed, and to the leadership of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, undermines any attempt to take their position seriously. They have assumed their conclusions and are determined to pound them home. They quote out of context, omit vital factual data, present sources as saying the opposite of what they say, and otherwise muddy the waters to the point of impenetrability.-- R. B. Bernstein, Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School