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...often glossed over: the idea that Jefferson actually achieved his presidency by maintaining the institution of “slave representation.” This event is part of the Harvard Book Store’s November Presidential Series, featuring talks with luminaries such as David Herbert Donald, Harry Wiencek and Gore Vidal. 6 p.m. Free. First Parish Church, Three Church...
...Wiencek tracks the postbellum rise of the black Hairstons against the decline of their former masters, once among the largest slaveholding families in the South. The central narrative unravels the 150-year-old mystery of a lost child, a story as brutal and romantic as anything by Faulkner. CBS is turning the book into a mini-series, but there are enough remarkable tales here for 10. A moving storyteller, Wiencek largely resists the temptation to moralize. Not since Mary Chesnut's Civil War has nonfiction about the South been as compelling as fiction...
...hire two young former narcotics agents unobtrusively when it added a second shift. Dressed in T shirts and jeans, they mingled easily with the assembly-line % workers. During a six-month period they bought everything from cocaine to LSD from the plant's alleged pushers. Says Dr. Robert Wiencek, GM's director of occupational safety and health: "We want any individual who is selling drugs in our plants to know that his days as a GM employee are numbered. We're not going to tolerate it." Last week Electronic Data Systems, a subsidiary of GM, began firing employees...
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