The Warmth of Other Suns

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The Warmth of Other Suns

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-576-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141995762

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1360

Fecha de publicación: 2021-01-07

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Warmth of Other Suns

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-515-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141995151

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 640

Fecha de publicación: 2020-08-04

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Warmth of Other Suns

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-516-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141995168

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 640

Fecha de publicación: 2020-08-04

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Warmth of Other Suns

Editorial: Vintage

ISBN: 978-06-7976-388-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780679763888

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 640

Fecha de publicación: 2011-10-04

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

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The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

Primera publicación: 2020-08-04

From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson gives us this definitive, vividly dramatic account of how these journeys unfolded. Based on interviews with more than a thousand people, and access to new data and official records, The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of America's Great Migration 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. 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 a hitherto " unrecognized immigration".