Maybe this was the original idea Lee had. Maybe this was the book Lee wanted to publish, but the editor didn't. Lee gave her consent to publish the book. Some argue that Lee was manipulated in her elderly age, but that's another argument.
My response is way old but why all the questions? I was merely submitting an interesting fact about the new book. Plus, why are you and the rest of your socialists so surprised about Atticus being a racist? I recently re-read the book, or should I say listened to the audiobook, and CLEARLY ATTICUS FINCH IS A RACIST!
Oh, he might not be the lynching kind of racist but he certainly is a racist. The title "To Kill a Mockingbird" is racist. Finch views black people as nothing more than pitiful creatures too ignorant and unintelligent to do for themselves and must depend on the charity of whites.
The soft bigotry of low expectations. Obviously, something that you libs are too arrogant to recognize in the mirror.