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.
BIO
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello, she lives in New York and Cambridge.
REVIEWS
"The Hemingses of Monticello explores a thorny but important chapter in American history with distinction and clarity, offering a poignant, if also often ugly, chronicle of slavery, secrecy and family tension." --Bookpage
"Because of Gordon-Reed, Hemings and her ancestors and descendants achieve full personhood. For that, the author deserves praise and lots of readers." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A sweeping, prodigiously researched biography." --Motoko Rich, New York Times
[H] W.W. Norton & Company / September 17, 2008
1.62" H x 9.48" L x 6.64" W (2.55 lbs) 800 pages
[P] W.W. Norton & Company / September 01, 2009
1.43" H x 9.18" L x 6.16" W (2.32 lbs) 816 pages