The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$21.95
$20.41
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
September 01, 2009
Pages
816
Dimensions
6.16 X 9.18 X 1.43 inches | 2.32 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393337761
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About the Author
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
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.
Because of Gordon-Reed, Hemings and her ancestors and descendants achieve full personhood. For that, the author deserves praise and lots of readers.
Hemings and her extended family receive a worthy biography.
A sweeping, prodigiously researched biography.--Motoko Rich
A monumental and original book.--Fergus Bordewich
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
[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
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
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.--François Furstenberg
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed, a historian and law professor, is a doorstop corrective to early American history, painting a composite portrait of a family that stood at the wellspring of the Jefferson, slave Sally Hemings, their children and kin fascinate and surprise.
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.--James Smethurst
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.--Ron Wynn
Because of Gordon-Reed, Hemings and her ancestors and descendants achieve full personhood. For that, the author deserves praise and lots of readers.
Hemings and her extended family receive a worthy biography.
A sweeping, prodigiously researched biography.--Motoko Rich
A monumental and original book.--Fergus Bordewich
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
[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
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
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.--François Furstenberg
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed, a historian and law professor, is a doorstop corrective to early American history, painting a composite portrait of a family that stood at the wellspring of the Jefferson, slave Sally Hemings, their children and kin fascinate and surprise.
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.--James Smethurst
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.--Ron Wynn
