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The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration
(CD Unabridged)

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Grand Haven, Mich. : Brilliance Audio, [2011].
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CD Unabridged
Edition:
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc:
19 audio discs (22 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Lexile measure:
1160L
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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.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER
HEARTLAND AWARD WINNER
DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • USA Today • O: The Oprah Magazine • Amazon • Publishers Weekly • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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

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.

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.

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.

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9781469233017, 9781455814237, 1455814237, 9781455814213, 1455814210
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9781455814213
Lexile measure:
1160

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Compact discs.
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Nonfiction.
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Performed by Robin Miles.
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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..."--Container.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Wilkerson, I., & Miles, R. (2011). The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration. Unabridged ed. Grand Haven, Mich., Brilliance Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Wilkerson, Isabel and Robin. Miles. 2011. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Grand Haven, Mich., Brilliance Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Wilkerson, Isabel and Robin. Miles, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Grand Haven, Mich., Brilliance Audio, 2011.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Wilkerson, Isabel. and Robin Miles. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Unabridged ed. Grand Haven, Mich., Brilliance Audio, 2011.

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