Warmth of other suns

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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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The Warmth of Other Suns

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a landmark piece of non fiction janet maslin the new york timesfrom 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 si Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, maandag in huis .. MEER INFO

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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 28 oktober in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 oktober 2011

Aantal pagina's: 622

Illustraties: Nee

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

Hoofdauteur: Isabel Wilkerson

Hoofduitgeverij: INGP

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 159 mm

Product hoogte: 38 mm

Product lengte: 235 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 154 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 42 mm

Verpakking lengte: 235 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 907 g

EAN: 9780679763888

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