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Anderson’s Bookshop – Banned Book Club
August 15, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
Join us in Downers Grove for our monthly Banned Book Club! Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, August 15th at 6:00 pm, and we will be discussing The Hemingses of Monticello. This will be a free event, but we highly encourage the purchase of the monthly book from our store. Please note that the author will not be present at this event.
More about The Hemingses of Monticello:
This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—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.
About the Author:
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello, she lives in New York and Cambridge.
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