The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses of Monticello won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller. 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 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN-13
- 9780393070033
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Slavery in AmericaThomas Jefferson and the Hemings familyRace and family in early America
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(2009)
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(2009)
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(2008)
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