Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns 2010 Retail EPUB eBook torrent

| The Warmth of Other Suns |
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| DATE: 2012-06-06 SIZE: 2,59MB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: |
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| PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group GENRE: Fiction |
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| AUTHOR: Isabel Wilkerson |
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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-679-60407-5 |
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: In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize--winning :
: author Isabel Wilkerson 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. 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. :
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: 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. :
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: 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. :