There's also an interesting article on the book in the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=8220 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 8221 (Norton 36 35)
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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
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From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
> Posted at History News Network, Monday, September 22, 2008 Annette
> Gordon-Reed : Edmund Morgan calls her one of the best historians of her
> generation <http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/54782.html>
>
> Source: *Marie Morgan and Edmund S. Morgan in the New York Review of Books
> in the course of a review of Annette Gordon-Reed's new book, The Hemingses
> of
> Monticello*<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21855?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Ca
> mpaign+Monitor&utm_content=91964597&utm_campaign=Joseph+Lelyveld+on+John+%26+Sar
> ah%2c+Michael+Chabon+on+Obama&utm_term=Jefferson%26%238217%3bs+Concubine>(10-9-0
> 8)
>
> The Hemingses of Monticello is a brilliant book. It marks the author as one
> of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this
> generation. Not least of Annette Gordon-Reed's achievements is her ability
> to bring fresh perspectives to the life of a man whose personality and
> character have been scrutinized, explained, and justified by a host of
> historians and biographers. They have struggled to illuminate, and sometimes
> to gloss over, the dark places in his life. Like many upright public figures
> who know they are pure and their enemies vile, he was capable of deviousness
> and treachery. He instigated the savage attacks by the anti-Federalist
> National Gazette editor Philip Freneau on John Adams, once his fast friend,
> and was flummoxed rather than ashamed at being caught out paying Freneau to
> be his mouthpiece. Such actions gave rise in Jefferson biographies to
> characterizations like "enigma" and "sphinx."
>
> The full review is at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21855?email
>
> --
> Jon Kukla
> www.JonKukla.com
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