PositiveThe Washington PostJefferson’s \'noble aspirations\' for the university he cherished as his most significant legacy became, as Taylor forcefully demonstrates, \'entangled\' in the inequalities and injustices of his society ... Taylor would have us recognize that we, not our children or grandchildren, bear responsibility for our world. And Taylor has an important message as well for a university community still haunted by Jefferson’s shadow: \'There is more to celebrate,\' he insists, \'in what the University has become than in how it began.\' Those beginnings, as Thomas Jefferson’s Education makes clear, were in every aspect inseparable from the distorting and poisonous influence of the slave society Jefferson hoped his university would transform. Taylor’s book might well have been titled \'Thomas Jefferson’s Delusions.\'
