The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel

Description: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells the story of the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, from 1915 to 1970, through the lives of three unique individuals. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIMES TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESS FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY "A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth."—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal "What shes done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber."—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • USA Today • Publishers Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Economist •Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquirer • The Guardian • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Christian Science Monitor In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970. Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecroppers wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. 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 a modern classic. Author Biography ISABEL WILKERSON won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times. The award made her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. She won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and has served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and as the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. During the Great Migration, her parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and reared. This is her first book. Review "A landmark piece of nonfiction . . . [Isabel Wilkersons] closeness with, and profound affection for, her subjects reflect her deep immersion in their stories and allow the reader to share that connection."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times"A brilliant and stirring epic, the first book to cover the full half-century of the Great Migration . . . Wilkerson combines impressive research . . . with great narrative and literary power. Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth."—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal"[A] massive and masterly account of the Great Migration . . . a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprahs couch."—David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review"[A] deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book . . . This is narrative nonfiction, lyrical and tragic and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, finally, isnt argument at all; its compassion. Hush, and listen."—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker"Told in a voice that echoes the magic cadences of Toni Morrison or the folk wisdom of Zora Neale Hurstons collected oral histories, Wilkersons book pulls not just the expanse of the migration into focus but its overall impact on politics, literature, music, sports—in the nation and the world."—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times"[An] extraordinary and evocative work."—The Washington Post"Mesmerizing."—Chicago Tribune"Scholarly but very readable, this book, for all its rigor, is so absorbing, it should come with a caveat: Pick it up only when you can lose yourself entirely."—O: The Oprah Magazine "[An] indelible and compulsively readable portrait of race, class, and politics in twentieth-century America. History is rarely distilled so finely."—Entertainment Weekly"Astonishing . . . Isabel Wilkerson delivers! . . . With the precision of a surgeon, Wilkerson illuminates the stories of bold, faceless African-Americans who transformed cities and industries with their hard work and determination to provide their children with better lives."—Essence"Profound, necessary and an absolute delight to read."—Toni Morrison"A sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of Americas hidden twenteith-century history. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation."—Tom Brokaw"A seminal work of narrative nonfiction . . . You will never forget these people."—Gay Talese"This book will be long remembered, and savored."—Jon Meacham"A masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Dont miss it!"—Cornel West Review Quote "Profound, necessary and an absolute delight to read." --Toni Morrison "The Warmth of Other Sunsis a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of Americas hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation." --Tom Brokaw "A seminal work of narrative nonfiction…You will never forget these people." --Gay Talese "With compelling prose and considered analysis, Isabel Wilkerson has given us a landmark portrait of one of the most significant yet little-noted shifts in American history: the migration of African-Americans from the Jim Crow South to the cities of the North and West. It is a complicated tale, with an infinity of implications for questions of race, power, politics, religion, and class--implications that are unfolding even now. This book will be long remembered, and savored." --Jon Meacham "Isabel WilkersonsThe Warmth of Other Sunsis an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a peoples reinvention of itself and of a nation---the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west." --David Levering Lewis "Isabel Wilkersons book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Dont miss it!" --Cornel West Excerpt from Book In the Land of the Forefathers Our mattresses were made of corn shucks and soft gray Spanish moss that hung from the trees. . . . From the swamps we got soup turtles and baby alligators and from the woods we got raccoon, rabbit and possum. --Mahalia Jackson, Movin On Up Leaving This land is first and foremost his handiwork. It was he who brought order out of primeval wilderness . . . Wherever one looks in this land, whatever one sees that is the work of man, was erected by the toiling straining bodies of blacks. --David L. Cohn, God Shakes Creation They fly from the land that bore them. --W. H. Stillwell 1 Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Late October 1937 ida mae brandon gladney the night clouds were closing in on the salt licks east of the oxbow lakes along the folds in the earth beyond the Yalobusha River. The cotton was at last cleared from the field. Ida Mae tried now to get the children ready and to gather the clothes and quilts and somehow keep her mind off the churning within her. She had sold off the turkeys and doled out in secret the old stools, the wash pots, the tin tub, the bed pallets. Her husband was settling with Mr. Edd over the worth of a years labor, and she did not know what would come of it. None of them had been on a train before--not unless you counted the clattering local from Bacon Switch to Okolona, where, "by the time you sit down, you there," as Ida Mae put it. None of them had been out of Mississippi. Or Chickasaw County, for that matter. There was no explaining to little James and Velma the stuffed bags and chaos and all that was at stake or why they had to put on their shoes and not cry and bring undue attention from anyone who might happen to see them leaving. Things had to look normal, like any other time they might ride into town, which was rare enough to begin with. Velma was six. She sat with her ankles crossed and three braids in her hair and did what she was told. James was too little to understand. He was three. He was upset at the commotion. Hold still now, James. Lemme put your shoes on, Ida Mae told him. James wriggled and kicked. He did not like shoes. He ran free in the field. What were these things? He did not like them on his feet. So Ida Mae let him go barefoot. Miss Theenie stood watching. One by one, her children had left her and gone up north. Sam and Cleve to Ohio. Josie to Syracuse. Irene to Milwaukee. Now the man Miss Theenie had tried to keep Ida Mae from marrying in the first place was taking her away, too. Miss Theenie had no choice but to accept it and let Ida Mae and the grandchildren go for good. Miss Theenie drew them close to her, as she always did whenever anyone was leaving. She had them bow their heads. She whispered a prayer that her daughter and her daughters family be protected on the long journey ahead in the Jim Crow car. "May the Lord be the first in the car," she prayed, "and the last out." When the time had come, Ida Mae and little James and Velma and all that they could carry were loaded into a brother-in-laws truck, and the three of them went to meet Ida Maes husband at the train depot in Okolona for the night ride out of the bottomland. 2 Wildwood, Florida, April 14, 1945 george swanson starling a man named roscoe colton gave Lil George Starling a ride in his pickup truck to the train station in Wildwood through the fruit-bearing scrubland of central Florida. And Schoolboy, as the toothless orange pickers mockingly called him, boarded the Silver Meteor pointing north. A railing divided the stairs onto the train, one side of the railing for white passengers, the other for colored, so the soles of their shoes would not touch the same stair. He boarded on the colored side of the railing, a final reminder from the place of his birth of the absurdity of the world he was leaving. He was getting out alive. So he didnt let it bother him. "I got on the car where they told me to get on," he said years later. He hadnt had time to bid farewell to everyone he wanted to. He stopped to say good-bye to Rachel Jackson, who owned a little caf Description for Library Wilkerson, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer (in 1994, for feature reporting at the New York Times), tells the stories of three individuals to track the movement of African Americans from the South during the 20th century. Great expectations and an 11-city tour; pair with Ira Berlins recent The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations. Details ISBN0679444327 Author Isabel Wilkerson Language English ISBN-10 0679444327 ISBN-13 9780679444329 Media Book Format Hardcover Short Title WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS Pages 640 Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-09-07 Subtitle The Epic Story of Americas Great Migration DOI 10.1604/9780679444329 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2010-09-07 NZ Release Date 2010-09-07 US Release Date 2010-09-07 UK Release Date 2010-09-07 Publisher Random House USA Inc Imprint Random House Inc DEWEY 304.80973 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43665659;

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