2000s Illustrated Epic Historical Book, Annette Gordon-Reed's the Hemingses of Monticello - an American Family

Details

Description

Title: The Hemingses of Monticello - An American Family.
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Origin: New … Read more Title: The Hemingses of Monticello - An American Family.
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Origin: New York, NY (Printed in the USA).
Publication date: 2008.
Edition: First edition, first printing (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0).

Description: 798 p. 8vo. Publisher's black/sand paper covered hardcover, gilt title on spine cover/front board, timeline illustrated end papers, text includes illustrations with graphs, tables & black/white photos, matte color illustrated dust jacket.

Measures: 1.75 W x 6.25 D x 9.5 H inches.

About this work and author: 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 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. See less