6/28/2023 0 Comments The hemingses of monticelloThis comprehensive biography of Hemings’s family before, during, and after their lives at Monticello belongs on the biography genre’s Mount Rushmore thanks to Gordon-Reed’s revelatory investigation and her stellar narration of history from a previously hidden perspective.Ī riveting and compassionate family portrait that deserves to endure as a model of historical inquiry…stands dramatically apart for its searching intelligence and breadth of humane vision…We owe Annette Gordon-Reed tremendous thanks. very important and powerfully argued history of the Hemings family… has the imagination and talent of an expert historian. Morgan and Marie Morgan - New York Review of Books A sweeping, prodigiously researched biography.Ī brilliant book…It marks the author as one of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this generation.
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