Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History and the National Book Award. She holds three appointments at Harvard University: professor of law at Harvard Law School, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Carol K. · The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Summary - Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School. Her book was titled "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy." She also co-authored "Vernon Can Read!: a Memoir" () with Vernon Jordan, longtime civil rights leader and presidential confidante. · The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Annette Gordon-Reed. W. W. Norton Company, Sep 8, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 20 Reviews. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: " [A] commanding and /5(20).
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history of four generations of the African-American Hemings family, from their African and Virginia origins until the death of Thomas Jefferson. Annette Gordon-Reed has written a captivating piece of history about the Hemings family, about the way they were inexorably intertwined with the Jeffersons well before the Sally story, about Annette Gordon-Reed gives us a scholarly and extensive effort in her latest book, The Hemings of Monticello.
This epic work 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 s to the f. "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. " ― Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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 Yorker. This epic work—named a.
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