links for 2008-08-20

The Sunday Salon "What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people–students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill [...]

In re: Hemings v Jefferson

From Publishers Lunch, a new book deal: William Hyland’s IN DEFENSE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: Unravelling the Sally Hemings Sex Scandal, proving beyond every reasonable doubt that that the evidence against Thomas Jefferson is not only lacking, but in fact Jefferson was entirely innocent of the charge of having sexual relations with his servant, Sally Hemings, [...]

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