Hemingses of Monticello : An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (Hardcover)

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book."--Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, So begins this epic work--named a best book of the year by the Washington Post , Time , the Los Angeles Times , Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle , and a notable book by the New York Times-- Annette Gordon-Reed's "riveting history" of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work. Gordon-Reed, author of the highly acclaimed historiography Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy , unearths startling new information about the Hemingses, Jefferson, and his white family. Although the book presents the most detailed and richly drawn portrait ever written of Sarah Hemings, better known by her nickname Sally, who bore seven children by Jefferson over the course of their thirty-eight-year liaison, The Hemingses of Monticello tells more than the story of her life with Jefferson and......