Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters

by Donald Bogle

Book Overview

"Mr. Bogle continues to be our most noted black-cinema historian."
--Spike Lee

"Donald Bogle is a] pioneering safe-keeper of the history of blacks in film."
--Vogue

From Donald Bogle, author of the bestselling Dorothy Dandridge and Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies, and Bucks, a groundbreaking history of African American portrayals in Hollywood, comes the long-awaited, definitive biography of one of America's brightest and most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061241733
• ISBN13: 9780061241734
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"