The Hornes

by Victoria Glendinning and Gail Lumet Buckley

Book Overview

An inspired, intimate history of musical legend Lena Horne and her family, written by Lena's daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. More than a loving biography of a true show business legend, Lumet Buckley traces Lena's, as well as her own, roots as the latest in a long family line of America's Black elite.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452259592
• ISBN13: 9780452259591
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Hornes; An American Family

I am interested in African American culture and I always wanted a bio of Lena Horne. She is so multifacted as a performer.

An exemplary family history

An absorbing trip through American history, courtesy of a family of vivid dreamers and high achievers. Gail Lumet Buckley had access to a remarkable family archive of scrapbooks, photographs and journals and does great justice to it, crafting a multigenerational portrait that is enlightening and highly readable. Although Buckley's mother, Lena Horne, is the most famous member of the family, the book makes it clear that she was only one of its noteworthy success stories. For anyone wanting to know more about what America was like for middle-class blacks in the Reconstruction and beyond, "The Hornes" is a wonderful place to begin.

the hornes

Fabulous insight into a family with ties to every important event in US History.