$2.99 | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (eBook) by Isabel Wilkerson Leave a comment
Creator: Isabel Wilkerson
Writer: Classic
Publication date: September 7, 2010
Print size: 637 pages
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • LOS ANGELES TIMES‘S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES
“A superb and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Nice Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes historical past, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer, The Wall Road Journal
“What she’s executed with these oral histories is stow reminiscence in amber.”—Lynell George, Los Angeles Occasions
WINNER: The Mark Lynton Historical past Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Ebook Journalism • NAACP Picture Award for Finest Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral Historical past Prize
FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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On this superbly written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–successful creator Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of many nice untold tales of American historical past: the Nice Migration of six million Black residents who fled the South for the North and West looking for a greater life, from World Battle I to 1970.
Wilkerson tells this interwoven story by means of the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s spouse, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of constructing it in California.
Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by automobile and prepare and their new lives in colonies within the New World. The Heat of Different Suns is a daring, exceptional, and riveting work, an excellent account of an “unrecognized immigration” inside our personal land. By the breadth of its narrative, the fantastic thing about the writing, the depth of its analysis, and the fullness of the individuals and lives portrayed herein, this e-book is a contemporary basic.
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