Paternity Studies

THE JEFFERSON HEMINGS MYTH: AN AMERICAN TRAVESTY

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Review from Amazon.com

This book carefully examines the facts and finds that, contrary to the way the matter has been portrayed in the news media, there is no substantial evidence at all to support the charge that Thomas Jefferson had a relationship with Sally Hemings.

Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (2001)

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IN DEFENSE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: THE SALLY HEMINGS SEX SCANDAL


JEFFERSON VINDICATED: FALLACIES, OMISSIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN THE HEMINGS GENEALOGICAL SEARCH

Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon

"As with all legends, the Sally story has a thread of historical truth..." Read more

by Cynthia H. Burton, foreword by James A. Bear, Jr. (2006)


FRAMING A LEGEND: EXPOSING THE DISTORTED HISTORY OF  THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS

Reviewed by Richard Dixon

M. Andrew Holowchak, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, examines the epistemology used by Fawn Brodie, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Andrew Burstein, in their studies of the Jefferson-Hemings paternity claim...Read more

by M. Andrew Holowchak, Prometheus Books, 2013


ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL: THOMAS JEFFERSON & THE SALLY STORY

This book is a long awaited and well-researched expose of the Martha Jefferson-Sally Hemings half-sister legend. Read more...

by Rebecca L. McMurry and James F. McMurry, Jr., M.D., foreword by David N. Mayer,
White Mane Publishing Co (2002)

Reviewed by Herbert Barger