“The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn” by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
n the late 18th century, when America was merely a teenager, “Kentucky was the frontier,” says Myers, with great stands of trees between “vast swath[s] of rich, fertile land.” Robert Johnson was a surveyor in that area, and he liked what he saw. He and his wife arranged to buy several thousand acres of the […]
