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In ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ Harper Lee at Last Gives Us a Believable Atticus Finch

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Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman before salvaging its characters and setting for To Kill a Mockingbird. Yet in many ways, the earlier book is more honest.

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