Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Well Written but irrelevant

Gordon-Reed's work, while impressive from a research perspective, point sout the basic flaw undergirding most of this politically correct fable about the paterninty of the Hemmings's descendents: no evidence EXISTS to prove that they were Jefferson's. Writing about the controversy between pro- and anti-Jefferson positions -- without acknowledging that one side can not prove its case, while the other is forced into the tortured pose of having to prove a negative, is to miss the crux of the entire debate.Two hundred years after the story first gained circulation, the DNA evidence demonstrated nothing more than had ALWAYS been asserted -- that the Hemmings's children were fathered SOME DESCENDENT in the Jefferson line.Books like Gordon-Reed's only highlight the affliction currently paralyzing much of the historical community: the willingness to ignore facts in favor of a narrative of the way in which we WISHED events had happened.