Annette Gordon-Reed’s “The Hemingses of Monticello” is awarded the 2008 National Book Award for non-fiction.
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Annette Gordon-Reed’s wonderful book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, was awarded the 2008 National Book Award for non-fiction last night at the National Book Foundation’s annual dinner in Manhattan. Having admired Gordon-Reed’s literary work for years, I felt doubly fortunate to be at the dinner and thus able to congratulate her in person, [...]
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