Review: Harper Lee's ‘Go Set A Watchman' Gives Atticus Finch A Dark Side

NYT On New Harper Lee Novel: Atticus Finch Racist

We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel’s moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a lawyer to defend a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town filled with prejudice and hatred in the 1930s.

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