The Warmth of Other Suns Pdf Summary Reviews By Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns Pdf Summary

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. 

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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About Isabel Wilkerson Author Of The Warmth of Other Suns pdf Book

Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson is the Author of The Warmth of Other Suns pdf book: The Origins of Our Discontents Pdf Book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, she is also the author the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns, tells the story of the Great Migration, a watershed in American history. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction, the Lynton History Prize from Harvard and Columbia universities, the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize and was shortlisted for both the Pen-Galbraith Literary Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

WARMTH was named to more than 30 Best of the Year lists, including The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the Year, Amazon’s 5 Best Books of the Year and Best of the Year lists in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Economist, among others. In 2019, TIME Magazine named Warmth to its list of the10 best books of the decade.

Her second book, CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents, explores the unrecognized hierarchy in America, its history and its consequences. Caste became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, was the 2020 summer/fall selection for Oprah’s Book Club and was longlisted for the National Book Award. It was named to more best of the year lists than any other work of nonfiction. TIME named it the No. 1 nonfiction book of 2020. Publishers Marketplace named it the book of the year across all genres. In 2021, it was the most borrowed nonfiction library book in the United States, according to Quartz Magazine.

Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal for “championing the stories of an unsung history.”

She has appeared on national programs such as “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” CBS’s “60 Minutes,” NBC’s “Nightly News,” “The PBS News Hour,” MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” NPR’s “On Being with Krista Tippett,” the BBC and others. She has taught at Princeton, Emory and Boston universities and has lectured at more than 200 other colleges and universities across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia.

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The Warmth of Other Suns pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information

the warmth of other suns pdf book
the warmth of other suns pdf book
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House; Later prt. edition (September 7, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679444327
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679444329
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1160L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.21 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #41,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Emigration & Immigration Studies (Books)
  • #70 in Black & African American History (Books)
  • #149 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
  • Customer Reviews: 4.8 out of 5 stars    17,505 ratings

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