"Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power Houghton Mifflin Company Nov. 2003 isbn: 0618343989 $25.00 Other Books by Garry Wills

Harvard Book Store Author Series Presents:

Harvard Book Store is thrilled to announce that on Tuesday, November 11th Garry Wills will be talking about his book, "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power. In "Negro President", the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage. Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Heming to look at the political relationship between the president and slavery, and in doing so offers a bold rethinking of one of American history's greatest icons.

This event is part of our November Presidential Series, featuring talks with David Herbert Donald, Henry Wiencek, and Gore Vidal.

Garry Wills

Author Biography:

Garry Wills is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of numerous books, including Lincoln at Gettysburg, Nixon Agonistes, Reagan's America, Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and most recently "Negro President." A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he has won many awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University.