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Making Roots - A Nation Captivated (Hardcover)
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Making Roots - A Nation Captivated (Hardcover)
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List price R695
Loot Price R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
You Save R96 (14%)
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When Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976, it
became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by
ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time,
captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time,
Americans saw slavery as an integral part of the nation's history.
With a remake of the series in 2016 by A&E Networks, Roots has
again entered the national conversation. In Making "Roots," Matthew
F. Delmont looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations
of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of
history. Delmont investigates the decisions that led Alex Haley,
Doubleday, and ABC to invest in the story of Kunta Kinte,
uncovering how Haley's original, modest book proposal developed
into an unprecedented cultural phenomenon.
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