![]() The publication of Lisa Russ Spaar’s new anthology, Monticello in Mind, contributes significantly to the conversation. The Broadway musical Hamilton no doubt has fueled some of the current interest, but neither a singular focus on Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings nor a debate about how best to dramatize eighteenth and nineteenth-century race and gender dynamics does adequate justice to the immeasurable importance of Thomas Jefferson in the development of this country. Within the last ten days, a review in The Wall Street Journal and an interview in Slate have considered Jefferson in these terms. More specifically, Thomas Jefferson, particularly as he is associated with questions of power, privilege, and race-questions that illuminate the gap between America’s promise and its fulfillment-continues to command the modern imagination. ![]() It’s not even past,” is by its own terms continuously relevant, there are times during which its applicability seems more immediate than others. Although William Faulkner’s oft-paraphrased claim that “he past is never dead. ![]()
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