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(0)Annette Gordon-Reed
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Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with America's leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present an absorbing and revealing character study that dispels the many clichés that have accrued over the years about our third president. Challenging the widely prevalent belief that Jefferson remains so opaque as to be unknowable, the authors - through their careful analysis, painstaking research, and vivid prose - create a portrait of Jefferson, as he might...
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Analyzes the evidence that exists in support of the story of a thirty-eight-year liaison between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, pointing out errors and prejudices in the writings of historians and biographers who sought to preserve Jefferson's image by debunking the persistent rumor. Includes the author's response to newly-discovered DNA evidence.