Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'You can't get a straightforward history of America'
The Europe-raised playwright is hoping for a rapprochement with her American roots with her new play about Thomas Jefferson " but she thinks the founding father has a lot to answer forHaving a new play opening and a work from the past being revived as a "modern masterpiece" at the National Theatre must be close to ideal for most dramatists.Timberlake Wertenbaker has just achieved it, with Jefferson's Garden, a drama …