Framing a Legend: Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781616147297ISBN-10:1616147296UPC:9781616147297Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historiography, Presidents & Heads of State, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCKDC0841A
Framing a Legend: Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
It's accepted by most scholars that Thomas Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children. This conclusion is based on a 1998 DNA study published in Nature and on the work of historian Annette Gordon-Reed, assumed by many to be the last word on the subject. This book argues compellingly that the DNA evidence is inconclusive and that there are...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781616147297ISBN-10:1616147296UPC:9781616147297Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historiography, Presidents & Heads of State, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCKDC0841A
M. Andrew Holowchak (Lindenwold, NJ) is assistant professor of philosophy at Rider University. He is the author of Dutiful Correspondent: Philosophical Essays on Thomas Jefferson, seventeen other books on philosophy, critical thinking, and psychoanalysis, and numerous articles in scholarly journals.
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