$49.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Wiley / ISBN:9780393064773
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
Winner of the 2008 US National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History
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.
Winner of the National Book Award
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Shadow Country
$55.95 – Hardcover book / Modern Library
Winner of the 2008 US National Book Award for Fiction
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its lengt... Buy or find out more →
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
$49.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Wiley
Winner of the 2008 US National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematica... Buy or find out more →
Fire To Fire: New And Selected Poems
$35.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The word that keeps leaping to mind, as you read through this gratifyingly thick collection of poems, is fluent. Dotys facility with his chosen formusually unrhymed stanzas of two, three, and four lines each, the meter f... Buy or find out more →
What I Saw And How I Lied
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Scholastic
Blundell, author of Star Wars novelizations, turns out a taut, noirish mystery/coming-of-age story set in 1947; it's easy to picture it as a film starring Lana Turner, who is mentioned in these pages. When first met, 15-... Buy or find out more →
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2009
Olive Kitteridge
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pocket Books
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town ... Buy or find out more →
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
$49.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Wiley
Winner of the 2008 US National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematica... Buy or find out more →
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$35.95 – Paperback book / Delta Dell
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that th... Buy or find out more →
Ruined
$29.95 – Paperback book / Theatre Comm Group
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports."-Linda Winer, "New... Buy or find out more →
American Lion Andrew Jackson In The White House
$30.95 – Paperback book / Random Century
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern p... Buy or find out more →