The Warmth of Other Suns - By Isabel Wilkerson
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The Warmth of Other Suns:
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Beacon Press (2010/2011)
ISBN-13: 9780679444329 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780679763888 (Paperback)
Pages: 640 (Hardcover and Paperback editions)
Genre(s): History, Society & Culture, Black/African-American Interest, Biography & Memoir, Black History
About the Book
In the tradition of works by Taylor Branch and J. Anthony Lukas, this magnificent epic by Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson chronicles a watershed event in American history--the decades-long migration of African-Americans from the South to the North and West, from World War I through the 1970s--through the stories of three individuals and their families.
This remarkable book covers a major shift in American life over the course of the twentieth century through the intimate and moving stories of three people who decided to leave the South to make new lives in the cities of the North and West.
In a narrative of remarkable sweep and scope, Wilkerson traces their lives from difficult beginnings in the South, to their critical decisions to leave behind all they know and look for a better life in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Three people--Ida Mae, George, and Robert--and their families serve as poignant and unforgettable representatives for the larger story of black migration in post-World War I America. More than a decade in the writing and research, and drawing on a huge range of interviews and archival materials, this book will stand as a classic of narrative journalism and of modern American history, on a par with works by Diane McWhorter, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robert Caro, J. Anthony Lukas, and Taylor Branch.
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