Roots
By Alex Haley.
Description
[*Abridged Edition] [Introduction by Michael Eric Dyson] [Read by Avery Brooks] One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue. It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. -- When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to...
ISBN(s)
0091296803, 9780091296803