-- aboutknown her of her all my life. she was minister of finance in the 70's when the coup happened. parents.my she was somebody that as a child growing up i had heard of. power. speaking truth to in 1985 when she was arrested and thrown into jail, i heard all about that and she became at this time sort of a political icon. afterwords on c-span2 book tv. sunday on the presidency, historian annette gordon reed talks about thomas jefferson and his relationship with the enslaved hemmings family who lived and worked in his monticello plantation. here's a preview. >> one of the reasons it was easy to dismiss the story of the hemmings family was cut people did know anything about the hemmings family other than that there was a scandal and they knew the name sally hemmings and manage new the name james hemmings. also did notpeople know much about the family. that if i could tell the story in a way that made people feel as if they had a stake in them, it might give people cause. i live in manhattan. partly in manhattan partly in