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Paperback The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book

ISBN: B0051ZT2JO

ISBN13: 9780679763888

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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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 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...

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I was told by a coworker to read this book. It opened my eyes to a part of history I was told but couldn't quite grasp even in my adult age!. This book made alot of things I knew a reality and tied it to specific people who endured mutiple of the things i might have only assigned to one human at a time. It just made the lives and events real for me. I truly enjoyed reading it.

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