The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009I6C7DK
Publish date: September 7th 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
African American,
American History,
Sociology,
Biography Memoir,
Race
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration is epic indeed. What's most amazing about this book is the sheer amount of research that must have gone into it. Despite focusing largely on only three migrants, Isabel Wilkerson interviewed nearly two hundred individuals in addit...
I did not want this book to end. For twenty hours I was just listening and enjoying the stories and then I noticed it was almost over. Sadness. You should definitely read this.
Amazingly researched and written history of the African-American/black migration from the south to the cities of the north, midwest, and west. Wilkerson is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, and journalists doing history usually drives me crazy. But she knows her stuff, can research, and can write--and ...
It was an interesting choice, tying such a huge historical movement to just three individual stories. There were some real advantages—hearing about the specifics of each person's leaving day, for instance, really brought home what a difficult endeavor it was, and why. But I did wish for a little mor...
6 years ago
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