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Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (2011, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679763880
ISBN-139780679763888
eBay Product ID (ePID)99678980
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Book TitleWarmth of Other Suns : the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorIsabel Wilkerson
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight26.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Reviews" A landmark piece of nonfiction &. sure to hold many surprises for readers of any race or experience&.A mesmerizing book that warrants comparison to The Promised Land, Nicholas Lemann's study of the Great Migration's early phase, and Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas's great, close-range look at racial strife in Boston&.[Wilkerson's] 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 " The Warmth of Other Suns is 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, 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 Oprah's couch." -David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review (Cover Review) "[A] deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book &.Wilkerson has taken on one of the most important demographic upheavals of the past century-a phenomenon whose dimensions and significance have eluded many a scholar-and told it through the lives of three people no one has ever heard of&.This is narrative nonfiction, lyrical and tragic and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, finally, isn't argument at all; it's compassion. Hush, and listen." -Jill Lepore, The New Yorker " The Warmth of Other Suns is epic in its reach and in its structure . Told in a voice that echoes the magic cadences of Toni Morrison or the folk wisdom of Zora Neale Hurston's collected oral histories, Wilkerson's 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 " One of the most lyrical and important books of the season ."-David Shribman, Boston Globe "[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 20th-century America. History is rarely distilled so finely ." Grade: A - Entertainment Weekly " An astonishing work &.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 "A truly auspicious debut ....The author deftly intersperses [her characters'] stories with short vignettes about other individuals and consistently provides the bigger picture without interrupting the flow of the narrative&Wilkerson's focus on the personal aspect lends her book a markedly different, more accessible tone. Her powerful storytelling style, as well, gives
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SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY - A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS "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 she's 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 sharecropper's 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., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY * A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS "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 she's 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 sharecropper's 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberE185.6W685 2011
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- Apr 21, 2021
Excellent, deep and compelling
This is a thoroughly absorbing read, focused on three individuals in the great migration, in which millions of Blacks moved out of the southern states to cities north and west, between 1915 and 1975, to seek a better life. Despite its daunting length, over 500 pages, I could scarcely put it down. The research is solid, the content is compelling, the writing is excellent. Anyone interested in American History in the 20th century will gain great insight from this masterpiece.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Nov 24, 2020
Racism made personal while conveying the big picture.
Highly recommend. Already many years since it came out but timeless content. With the Black Lives Matter movement urging me to become even more aware of racism, even when I thought I was an aware, liberal, white and educated woman, I started furthering my education with this book. It is invaluable for opening up the mind and letting me better understand how we got to where we are today.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Feb 10, 2024
A first person look into The Great Migration
The book gives a look into the lives of slaves children during the Jim Crow era. The author also details specific work details of the sharecropper period. So far, the orange grove stories are ones I had not heard or thought about.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Apr 04, 2017
A Must Read
This book should be required reading for each and every American. This book should be taught in each and every high school history class in America. This book is America. The great, the good, the bad, and the ugly truths. This book not only encapsulates the African-American journey but the evolution of American society. I want to personally thank a talk show host Bomani Jones for mentioning this book on his program ESPN's "The Right Time". I didn't know that this book existed. It peaked my curiosity and it became the best book I have every read. Subsequently I have purchased several books for my family and friends and to a person they feel the same way that I do about this book. It will make you laugh. It will make you angry. It will make you cry. It will make you feel pround. But most most importantly it will make you feel something.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 22, 2017
Excellent American History
This is an excellent book and should be required reading for all high school students. The documented presentation and description of the Great Migration gives the reader a poiniant understanding of the Jim Crow South and the treachery, violence, and oppression that terrorized Southern African Americans leading to 7 decades of flight from the racial caste system of the South to settle in cities in the North, Midwest, and West. The American acknowledgement and embrace of this history will go a long way in exposing and counteracting the resurgence of this mindset in contemporary American Society.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Mar 02, 2021
Compelling Book of America in better than I expected condition.
This is an exceptional and truly compelling story of America and the human condition. Buying it in paperback form is a good idea as it is quite a hefty book. The condition of this particular book, though labeled acceptable is much better than I expected. It will allow me to pass it on to other interested parties without concern for the book not surviving the lend. This book is a keeper for me!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jun 16, 2025
Book s in good shape. So far I’m enjoyin...
Book s in good shape. So far I’m enjoying this read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Apr 09, 2024
The Warmth of Other Suns
Awesome research & stories of the hardships & struggles of Southern migrants to the North & West. Heart wrenching & very enlighten ending especially for those who did not know much about the Great Migration. Excellent writing.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Feb 15, 2021
Great book!
It is well researched and well written. The author is well informed!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 18, 2021
The warmth of Other Suns. Info that I was never taught.
Learned so much even though I had to have lived through much of it. An interesting indictment of the way the black population was treated after the end of the civil war and for many years.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
