Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Her unquenchable curiosity about Thomas Jefferson and his secret slave family catapulted Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of History Annette Gordon-Reed onto the national stage when her critically acclaimed book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family received the 2008 National Book Award for nonfiction and, in April 2009, the Pulitzer Prize in History while a professor at Rutgers-Newark. "More than the story of Thomas Jefferson and his house slave Sally Hemings... [The Hemingses of Monticello] is a deeply moral and keenly intelligent probe of the harsh yet all-too-human world they inhabited and the bloodline they share," noted the National Book Foundation. Gordon-Reed also is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, editor of Race On Trial: Law and Justice in American History, and coauthor with Vernon Jordan of Vernon Can Read: A Memoir.
Book review in The New York Review of Books, Oct. 9, 2008
Book review in The New Yorker, Sept. 22, 2008
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