Sally Hemings
Chase-Riboud, Barbara
ISBN 10: 0345389719 ISBN 13: 9780345389718
Published by Ballantine Books, 1994
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Exploring one of the great tragic romances of American history, the love story of the beautiful slave who was Thomas Jefferson's mistress for four decades is filled with tenderness and cruelty, freedom and bondage, and loyalty and betrayal. Reprint.
From the Inside Flap:
E KAFKA PRIZE FOR BEST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN
"One of the great American stories . . . . Gives new luster to the words 'historical novel' . . . Vastly enjoyable." -- The New York Times
"Exquisitely crafted . . . . A sensitive life study of a truly exceptional woman: complex, courageous, irresistibly attractive, . . . elegantly self-possessed." -- Cosmopolitan
One of the greatest love stories in Amercian history is also one of the least known -- and most controversial. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, had a mistress for thirty-eight years, whom he loved and lived with until he died -- the beautiful and elusive quadroon slave, Sally Hemings.
In this brilliant novel, spanning two continents, sixty years, and seven presidencies, Barbara Chase-Riboud re-creates a love story based on the documents and the evidence of the day, but gives free rein to the novelist's imagination. Incredibly writt
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Title: Sally Hemings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Soft cover
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