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America's First Daughter
by Laura Kamoie, Stephanie Dray
Summer 20. I really struggled with this book from the beginning. I wasn’t sure how the author was going to deal with Sally Hemings. Knowing how the narrative and scholarship regarding Sally has changed in recent years, as well as having recently participated in lectures that focused on Sally and her family, I was particularly concerned as to where this book was going. This book felt long to me at times and I found myself extremely frustrated with Patsy on a regular basis. Painfully clear was the brutal reality of women’s lives in this era. There is the history of the United States and then there is the mythology of the United States. I found myself constantly questioning how much this book is focusing on mythology versus history. I pushed to the end mostly because I wanted to read the authors notes on the historical details. clearly the author did extensive research, but I am reminded that this is in fact historical fiction. It wasn’t until I finished this book that I realized that this book was written by the same author as Dear Hamilton, another book that I gave two stars. I did appreciate learning about Jefferson post presidency.