The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Paperback]

A sweeping, prodigiously researched biography.A monumental and original book.A brilliant book&It marks the author as one of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this generation.[A] very important and powerfully argued history of the Hemings family&[Gordon-Reed] has the imagination and talent of an expert historian.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.Because of Gordon-Reed, Hemings and her ancestors and descendants achieve full personhood. For that, the author deserves praise and lots of readers.?An epic saga of the Hemings family, whose bloodline has been mixed with that of Thomas Jefferson since our third president took slave Sally Hemings as a mistress.?Gordon-Reed has pulled off an astonishing feat of historical re-creation, involving equal measures of painstaking archival detective work, creative historical imagination, and balanced judgment.As the title suggests,Hemings and her extended family receive a worthy biography.?Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: [A] commanding and important book. Jill Lepore,