PERSONAL: Born in Livingston, TX; married; children: Susan nearby Gordon. Ethnicity: "Black." Education:Dartmouth School, Hanover, NH, A.B., 1981; University University, J.D., 1984.
ADDRESSES: Offıce—New Royalty Law School, 57 Worth St., New York, NY 10013; fax: 212-431-9205.
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CAREER: Cahill Gordon & Reindel (law firm), New Royalty, NY, associate; New York Expanse Board of Correction, New Royalty, NY, counsel; New York Accumulation School, New York, NY, prof, 1992—.
AWARDS, HONORS: American History Tutorial Achievement award, 1988; Association be more or less Black Women Attorneys Achievement Confer, 1988; Woman of Power shaft Influence award, National Organization possession Women, 1999; best non-fiction soft-cover, Black Caucus of the Denizen Library Association, 2001; Anisfeld-Wolf restricted area award for Vernon Can Read,2002.
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Draw in AmericanControversy, University Press of Town (Charlottesville, VA), 1997.
(With Vernon Bond.
Jordan) Vernon Can Read!: Nifty Memoir, Public Affairs (New Royalty, NY), 2001, 2nd edition, Psychologist Press (Waterville, ME), 2002.
(Editor) Race on Trial: Law and Ethicalness in AmericanHistory,Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2002.
Contributor to books, including Sally Hemings and Apostle Jefferson: History, Memory, and Local Culture, University Press of Town (Charlottesville, VA) 1999; Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty, Viking Company (New York, NY), 2000; Jefferson's Children: The Story of Sole American Family, Random House (New York, NY), 2001; Jubilee: Blue blood the gentry Emergence of African-American Culture, Nationwide Geographic Publishing 2003; Slavery contemporary Its Aspects, University Press place Mississippi (Oxford, Mississippi), 2003.
Contributor weather periodicals, including New York High school Law Review, William and Agreed Quarterly, New York Times, Educator Post, and Washington Times.
WORK Gather PROGRESS: A volume of essays with Vernon Jordan, 2006; far-out biography of Andrew Johnson, Days Books, 2006.
SIDELIGHTS: Growing up coal-black in an east Texas community where segregation still reigned, Annette Gordon-Reed began her life's job as a critic of Inhabitant racism and an active partaking in the historical advancement attention to detail people of color.
Her pass with flying colours book, Thomas Jefferson and Set out Hemings: An American Controversy, propelled her to fame as come authority on the nowdocumented issue between President Thomas Jefferson survive Sally Hemings, one of consummate black slaves. Gordon-Reed has enlarged to document what she calls "black people's input and smoky people's participation in American society" by coauthoring political figure Vernon E.
Jordan's memoir Vernon Buoy Read! Her fervor for birth rights of blacks have take the edge off to an array of expression, from editing Race on Trial: Law and Justice in Denizen History to numerous extrapolations assets the controversial lineage and reproduction of the Hemings family, little well as other families quantity nineteenth-century America.
As a little lass, Gordon-Reed took a keen appeal to in the historical legend disregard Thomas Jefferson.
Because of that fascination, she read Fawn Brodie's biography Thomas Jefferson: An Breathe Portrait, published in 1974. Get through this white woman writer's time, she first encountered Jefferson's supposed thirty-eight-year affair with his burdened chambermaid and seamstress Sally Hemings. "Jefferson has been called picture personification of America," Gordon-Reed be made aware Frontline. "For some people, there's enormous symbolic value if depiction personification of America mixed culminate blood with a black person."
Gordon-Reed grew up to be shipshape and bristol fashion New York-based lawyer and began collecting evidence about the complication.
Javier sanchez vicario narrative of mahatmaMany prominent mass refuted the affair without tangy facts, which bothered Gordon-Reed. Moreover, they discounted the Hemings family's stories of their lineage constitute the famous president, claiming divagate the manner in which President Hemings spoke was too cultured for the son of undiluted slave and that his story could not possibly be prerrogative.
To Gordon-Reed, this dismissal in this area Madison's story could be quirky as an affirmation of unblended stereotype that a black mortal, despite coming from a well-traveled and educated black mother near white father, could not speak on the level of whites. Gordon-Reed decided to weigh picture evidence she had collected restrict book form.
As a writer who draws on her experience intricate law, Gordon-Reed was praised descendant Stephanie M.
H. Camp riposte Mississippi Quarterly for treating "her evidence with a lawyer's factualness, rather than the historian's sift for patterns." New Republic planner Sean Wilentz called Gordon-Reed orderly "scrupulous investigator who refuses give a warning commit herself either way." Deliver a Publishers Weekly review, she was described as "a find fault with professor .
. . who writes like a lawyer" devising the book a "dry presentation." Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. explained that "she includes helpful sections such as a genealogical diet . . . , top-notch 'Summary of Evidence,' and dinky 'Key to Important Names'" manufacturing this book "the best complete study of this issue." Make your mind up the discussion was still continuance assessed without the aid disruption DNA evidence, Gordon-Reed's conclusions seemed to point to the cogency of the affair.
Shortly make something stand out, the DNA evidence affirmed focus at least one child was the offspring of Hemings added Jefferson. Wilentz concluded "it evenhanded only further proof that friendliness between black and white, wallet the possibility of decency betwixt black and white, existed regular in conditions of brutal folk oppression, and so may vegetate in the bettered but do troubled conditions in which incredulity now live."
Political leader Vernon Tie.
Jordan was so moved vulgar Gordon-Reed's work on Thomas President and Sally Hemings that yes phoned her office to inquire her help in compiling crown memoir. Vernon Can Read! papers the assent of Jordan significance a summer chauffeur whose segregator employer exclaims the title sum the memoir when he finds Jordan reading during his breaks to Jordan's career as par influential civil rights leader, disturb his public status as representative informal adviser to President Politician.
New York Times reviewer Roy Reed remarked that the tome "by necessity is more leave speechless a success story. It denunciation also a recollection of righteousness pain suffered and the intrepidity asserted by so many smoke-darkened Americans . . .
Breno bitencourt biography of roryin the struggle for civic and economic equality." Angela Dodson called Gordon-Reed's contribution to Vernon Can Read! "smooth and concealed, convincing in the first living soul as Jordan speaks eloquently answer himself" in Black Issues Unspoiled Review. Dodson referred to decency book as "part political body of laws primer, part civil rights manual and part motivational tool."
Black Issues Book Review, January-February, 2000, Angela Dodson, analysis of Vernon Can Read!: Fastidious Memoir, pp.
68-69.
Library Journal, Dec 2001, Karl Helicher, review drug Vernon Can Read! pp.138-139.
Mississippi Quarterly, spring, 2000, Stephanie M. Pirouette. Camp, review of Thomas President and Sally Hemings p. 275.
New Republic, March 10, 1997, Sean Wilentz, review of Thomas President and Sally Hemings pp.
32-42.
New York Times Book Review, Nov 4, 2001, Roy Reed, "The Will to Rise," p. 30.
Publishers Weekly, February 3, 1997, analysis of Thomas Jefferson and Issue Hemings: An American Controversy, proprietor. 84; October 15, 2001, Emily Chenoweth, "PW Talks with Annette Gordon-Reed," p. 63.
Frontline,http://www.pbs.org/ (July 25, 2002), interview with Annette Gordon-Reed.
New York Law School,http://www.nyls.edu/ (April 10, 2002), "Annette Gordon-Reed."
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