The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family

The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book." ?Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis 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. 37 illustrationsReview?A sweeping, prodigiously researched biography.? -Motoko Rich, New York Times?A monumental and original book.? -Fergus Bordewich, Washington Post?A brilliant book?It marks the author as one of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this generation.? -Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan, New York Review of Books?[A] very important and powerfully argued history of the Hemings family?[Gordon-Reed] has the imagination and talent of an expert historian.? -Gordon S. Wood, The New Republic?A riveting and compassionate family portrait that deserves to endure as a model of historical inquiry?stands dramatically apart for its searching intelligence and breadth of humane vision?We owe Annette Gordon-Reed tremendous thanks.? -Kirk Davis Swinehart, Chicago Tribune?The Hemingses of Monticello makes a powerful argument for the historical significance of the Hemings family not only for its engagement with a principal architect of the early Republic, but also for the ways the family embodies the complexities and contradictions of slavery in the United States.