The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family image
ISBN-10:

0393337766

ISBN-13:

9780393337761

Edition: Reprint
Released: Sep 08, 2009
Format: Paperback, 816 pages
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Description:

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book." ―Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

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.

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