a 1992 article by a law professor unknowingly anticipated the revelations of Watchman!

Even more fascinating, Freeman used evidence from Mockingbird to make all his points.  Like Gladwell, he too saw that the vast majority of readers who idolized Atticus Finch were ignoring lots of clues Lee placed in Mockingbird.

Some pull quotations:  "In 1992, a law professor named Monroe Freedman published an article in Legal Times, a magazine for practitioners. He asserted that Atticus Finch, the iconic hero of Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” ought not be lauded as a role model for attorneys.  ...Dismissed by some as the ravings of a curmudgeon, Freedman’s impression of Atticus Finch has now been largely ratified by none other than his creator, Harper Lee herself. The most dramatic feature of her “new” novel, “Go Set a Watchman” — written before “To Kill a Mockingbird” but published 55 years afterward — is the revelation that Atticus, the supposed paragon of probity, courage and wisdom, was a white supremacist."