Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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Alex Haley. (2014). Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Abridged Blackstone Publishing.

Alex Haley. 2014. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Blackstone Publishing.

Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

Alex Haley. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Abridged Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

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     Alex Haley (1921–1992) is the author of Roots, one of the most celebrated novels of the 1970s and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He had spent twenty years in the Coast Guard and worked for a range of magazines before becoming a ghostwriter for his first major book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He then spent years tracing his own family history and decided it went back to a single African man, Kunta Kinte, who was captured in Gambia and taken to the United States as a slave. That research led to his book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, published in 1976 to wide acclaim and the basis for a television series with a record 130 million viewers. He is credited with inspiring interest in genealogy among African Americans. He received the 1977 Spingarn Medal from the NAACP for his exhaustive research and literary skill combined in Roots. In 2002 the Republic of Korea (South Korea) posthumously awarded Haley its Korean War Service Medal.

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     Michael Eric Dyson is one of America's premier public intellectuals and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tears We Cannot Stop and What Truth Sounds Like. He occupies the distinguished position of university professor of sociology at Georgetown University, is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and is a contributing editor of the New Republic and ESPN's The Undefeated. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans and one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the nation.

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It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.

When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of the African—Kunta Kinte—as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767.

Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people—slaves and freed men, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher, and one acclaimed author—descended from Kunta Kinte.

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When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

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