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Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 684
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 03:28 am: | 
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Hello All,
I'm back on the stump, with some good news I might add. Annette Gordon-Reed became the first black author to win the National Book Award for non-fiction for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Here's the link, http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-11-19-national-book-awards_N.htm?cs p=34. I remember first seeing Gordon-Reed a few years ago when it was proven that Thomas Jefferson really did father Sally Hennings children. I congratulate Gordon-Reed on her award. I might have to read this book. |
Steve_s
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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 406
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 01:45 pm: |
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Thumper, How are you? Thanks for the link. I heard a very little bit of the author speaking on Book-TV.
According to the list of award winners at powells.com, Orlando Patterson, the Jamaican-born Harvard sociologist, won the Nat. Book Award for nonfiction in 1991. |
Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 704
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 12:15 am: |
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Hello All,
Steve: I just say this post: I am fine. You are welcome. I'm going to check this book out myself. I admit, I get a kind of evil glee to think what would Thomas Jefferson (what a freaking hypocrite!) think of Obama becoming a US president. |
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