Henry Wiencek: 2013 National Book Festival

Henry Wiencek appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival.

Speaker Biography: Literary critic Jonathan Yardley called Henry Wiencek's "Master of the Mountain" "brilliant," even as its author has been the subject of scathing criticism for his unflattering portrait of Thomas Jefferson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hemingses of Monticello," Annette Gordon-Reed, said it "fails as a work of scholarship." Wiencek told The New York Times that historians "are trying to discredit this. It presents an image they don't like." Wiencek depicts the third president as a cruel slaveholder who valued money much more than the principles he espoused as a founding father.

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