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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration di Isabel-
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- Condizione
- ISBN
- 9780679763888
- Book Title
- Warmth of Other Suns : the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 27.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 640 Pages
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. "Profound, necessary and an absolute delight to read." --Toni Morrison From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an "unrecognized immigration" within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679763880
ISBN-13
9780679763888
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99678980
Product Key Features
Book Title
Warmth of Other Suns : the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E185.6w685 2011
Reviews
" A landmark piece of nonfiction &. sure to hold many surprises for readers of any race or experience&.A mesmerizing book that warrants comparison to The Promised Land, Nicholas Lemann's study of the Great Migration's early phase, and Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas's great, close-range look at racial strife in Boston&.[Wilkerson's] closeness with, and profound affection for, her subjects reflect her deep immersion in their stories and allow the reader to share that connection." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times " The Warmth of Other Suns is a brilliant and stirring epic, the first book to cover the full half-century of the Great Migration& Wilkerson combines impressive research&with great narrative and literary power. Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath ; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth."-John Stauffer, Wall Street Journal "[A] massive and masterly account of the Great Migration&.A narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprah's couch." -David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review (Cover Review) "[A] deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book &.Wilkerson has taken on one of the most important demographic upheavals of the past century-a phenomenon whose dimensions and significance have eluded many a scholar-and told it through the lives of three people no one has ever heard of&.This is narrative nonfiction, lyrical and tragic and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, finally, isn't argument at all; it's compassion. Hush, and listen." -Jill Lepore, The New Yorker " The Warmth of Other Suns is epic in its reach and in its structure . Told in a voice that echoes the magic cadences of Toni Morrison or the folk wisdom of Zora Neale Hurston's collected oral histories, Wilkerson's book pulls not just the expanse of the migration into focus but its overall impact on politics, literature, music, sports - in the nation and the world."-Lynell George, Los Angeles Times " One of the most lyrical and important books of the season ."-David Shribman, Boston Globe "[An] extraordinary and evocative work."- The Washington Post " Mesmerizing ..."- Chicago Tribune "Scholarly but very readable, this book, for all its rigor, is so absorbing, it should come with a caveat: Pick it up only when you can lose yourself entirely ." -O, The Oprah Magazine "[An] indelible and compulsively readable portrait of race, class, and politics in 20th-century America. History is rarely distilled so finely ." Grade: A - Entertainment Weekly " An astonishing work &.Isabel Wilkerson delivers!...With the precision of a surgeon, Wilkerson illuminates the stories of bold, faceless African-Americans who transformed cities and industries with their hard work and determination to provide their children with better lives." -Essence "A truly auspicious debut ....The author deftly intersperses [her characters'] stories with short vignettes about other individuals and consistently provides the bigger picture without interrupting the flow of the narrative&Wilkerson's focus on the personal aspect lends her book a markedly different, more accessible tone. Her powerful storytelling style, as well, gives
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
304.80973
Dewey Edition
22
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