The Hemingses of Monticello
An American Family
WW Norton · Print & ebook · August 25, 2009
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller #1 on Esquire's List of the 50 Best Biographies of All Time "[A] commanding and important book." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker 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.
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- Who it’s for
- A family’s history opens onto the silences and reckonings of early America.
- Themes
- American family history, Historical erasure, Hemings family ties to Jefferson
- Genres
- Black & African American Lives, Presidents & World Leaders, Black History
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller #1 on Esquire's List of the 50 Best Biographies of All Time "[A] commanding and important book." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker 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.
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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.
Family and History
A family’s history opens onto the silences and reckonings of early America.
Come here for
- The Hemings family story, closely tied to Thomas Jefferson
- A fresh lens on familiar American history
Expect
- A wide-ranging family history, from 1700s Virginia to 1826
- The family’s story traced across generations
Where it sits
| Black & African American Lives | 53% |
|---|---|
| Black History | 41% |
| Presidents & World Leaders | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Colonial America (to 1775)
- Authors
- Annette Gordon-Reed
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- August 25, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- American family history · Historical erasure · Hemings family ties to Jefferson
- Reading lane
- Colonial America (to 1775)