The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Paperback

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Paperback

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Book Overview

This epic work--named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times--tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826.

ISBN9780393337761
Author Annette Gordon-Reed
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
GenreBiography, History, and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2009
LanguageENG- English
Pages816
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History and the National Book Award. She holds three appointments at Harvard University: professor of law at Harvard Law School, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, she is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy; the coauthor with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., of Vernon Can Read!; and the editor of Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. She lives in New York City.

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