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Bear River Spirit The book covers the historical lives of the Hemings family during the patriarchal reign of Thomas Jefferson. The focus is the Hemings family including other family slave connections. I have never read such an unbiased historical record before. Normally biographical records are dry and dull merely parroting previous biographers. The sense of putting the scene together pulls you into this book. It is about the family the society and the culture. At no time in the book do you feel the author is representing their attitudes and ideas of today on the society of the past. Instead the history is represented by the society and culture of the time, not ours. Instead of platitudes, the author presents ideas that could have driven actions or motives. This book is definitely a keeper and I recommend it as an excellent read to understand actions of the past, not necessarily the attitude of the current day writer who never really knew the character of the past. In fact, all biography is fiction. It is the mind of the writer and not the interaction or thoughts of the character. This book is true to biography in that it does not represent the characters as the author sees them, but actions and attitudes based upon study of the culture and society. This book is truer to non fiction as a genre than most biographies.Get more detail about The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.