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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Paperback)

By: Annette Gordon-Reed (Author)


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"[F]ascinating, wise and of the utmost importance....Gordon-Reed's genius for reading nearly silent records makes this an extraordinary work." (starred review)

"Hunting down every tiny thread of evidence about the family, Gordon-Reed has created a powerful alternative vision of the past....Gordon-Reed has created a monument to lives lived under the shadow of a vicious institution."

"THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO is a brilliant book. It marks the author as one of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this generation. Not the least of Annette Gordon-Reed's achievements is her ability to bring fresh perspectives to the life of a man whose personality and character have been scrutinized, explained, and justified by a host of historians and biographers."

Publisher's note

Traces the history of the Hemings family from its origins in early eighteenth-century Virginia to its dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826, in an account that describes their family ties to the third president. Reprint. A best-selling National Book Award winner and New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

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Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, both in the United States and Europe, and showing the fate of the Jefferson and Hemings children. In doing so, Gordon-Reed vividly demonstrates the incredibly complicated choices and diverse lives lived in the early days of the United States, and her careful explication of issues of race, sex, power, and family should be a revelation to most readers. THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO was one of the most critically acclaimed books released in 2008, winning both a National Book Award for nonfiction and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for history.

This epic work tells the story of the "Pathbreaking... and very moving" (Edmund S. Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third Morgan) - the multigenerational story of Thomas president had been systematically expunged from Jefferson's hidden slave family. 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. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written. This epic work tells the story of the "Pathbreaking... and very moving" (Edmund S. Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third Morgan) - the multigenerational story of Thomas president had been systematically expunged from Jefferson's hidden slave family. 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. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris onthe eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written.



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