The Hemingses Montiello

作者：  Annette Gordon-Reed　著

出版社： 2011-1-1

简介：　　This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose closeblood ties to our third president had been systematically expungedfrom American history until very recently. Now, historian and legalscholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from itsorigins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal afterJefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemingsand Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings'ssiblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compellingsaga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on theeve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation lifeat Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the mostimportant history of an American slave family ever written.