The warmth of other suns

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'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York Times

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life

From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson gives us this definitive, vividly dramatic account of how these journeys unfolded.

Based on interviews with more than a thousand people, and access to new data and official records, The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of America's Great Migration 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.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country journeys, as well as how they changed their new homes forever.

'You will never forget these people' Gay Talese

'A brilliant and stirring epic' John Stauffer, Wall Street Journal

'The mass migration of African Americans out of the US south forever changed the country's cultural fabric - and Wilkerson's history of this period is full of sacrifice and hope ... a long overdue account' Lettecha Johnson, Guardian

'A deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book. . . .Wilkerson has taken on one of the most important demographic upheavals of the past century and told it through the lives of three people ... lyrical and tragic' Jill Lepore, New Yorker

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The time nonfiction book of the year 1 new york times bestseller powerful and timely i cannot recommend it strongly enough barack obamabeyond race or class our lives are defined by a powerful unspoken system of divisions in caste pulitzer prize winning author isabel wilkerson provides a Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

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In an epic history covering the period from the end of world war i through the 1970s a pulitzer prize winner chronicles the decades long migration of african americans from the south to the north and west through the stories of three individuals and their families 75 000 first printing Uiterlijk 10 december in huis .. MEER INFO

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1 new york times bestseller oprah s book club pick an instant american classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the american century thus far dwight garner the new york timesthe pulitzer prize winning bestselling author of the warmth of other suns examines the uns Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 augustus 2020

Aantal pagina's: 640

Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Isabel Wilkerson

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Originele titel: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 27 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 125 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 33 mm

Verpakking lengte: 196 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 431 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780141995151

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