Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America we will be better able

we will be better able to answer life's most important question: "And did you get what you wanted out of life

New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room

poignant and surprising

they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth--all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end

New York Times

Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America we will be better ableA global history of how Thomas Jefferson's descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both sides of the color line The Declaration of Independence identified two core principles independence and equality that defined the American Revolution and the nation forged in 1776. Jefferson believed that each new generation of Americans would have to look to the "experience of the present" rather than the "wisdom" of the past to