The Hemingses of Monticello
An American Family
By Annette Gordon-Reed; Karen White (Narrator)
(Tantor Media, Compact Disc, 9781400139750)
Publication Date: October 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Paperback, Compact Disc, MP3 CD
Categories: Cultural Heritage, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor, Slavery
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This epic work 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. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written.
Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School and a professor of history at Rutgers University. She is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. She lives in New York City. Karen White is a classically trained actress who has been recording and directing audiobooks for more than ten years. An Audie Award finalist and Best Audiobook of the Year 2009 winner for The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon Reed, she has earned many AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for Too Good to Be True by Erin Arvedlund and Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz. Of Karen's narration of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, Publishers Weekly says, "Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience."
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