{"product_id":"the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-migration-hardcover","title":"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsabel Wilkerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBEST SELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBUZZFEED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eS BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath;\u003c\/i\u003e she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.\"--John Stauffer, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e O: The Oprah Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e Publishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e Salon \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e Newsday \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilkerson 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Wilkerson\u003c\/b\u003e won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.52 x 9.48 x 6.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (2010)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e ALA Notable Books (2011)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lukas Prize Project (2011)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978529538349,"sku":"9780679444329","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/TkRzcjlvRUwxdXg5K2tidWdBZUR3UT09.webp?v=1775805660","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-migration-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}