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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Think you know Thomas Jefferson? Think again. His story is tangled up with a family whose lives have been mostly footnotes in history books—the Hemingses, a slave family at Monticello. Annette Gordon-Reed digs deep into their world, pulling them out from the shadows and forcing us to reckon with the messy, uncomfortable truth behind America’s grand founding myths.
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