◆ 2009年度ピュリッツァー賞受賞（歴史部門）New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners (History). Story of Thomas Jefferson's hidden slave family. This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, the author traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826.