{"product_id":"9780141995151-the-warmth-of-other-suns","title":"The Warmth of Other Suns","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Epic Story of America's Great Migration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson gives us this definitive, vividly dramatic account of how these journeys unfolded. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on interviews with more than a thousand people, and access to new data and official records, \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of America's Great Migration 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country journeys, as well as how they changed their new homes forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You will never forget these people' Gay Talese\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant and stirring epic' John Stauffer, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The mass migration of African Americans out of the US south forever changed the country's cultural fabric - and Wilkerson's history of this period is full of sacrifice and hope . a long overdue account' Lettecha Johnson, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book.Wilkerson has taken on one of the most important demographic upheavals of the past century and told it through the lives of three people . lyrical and tragic' Jill Lepore, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32712534982753,"sku":"9780141995151","price":15.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32422764.jpg?v=1737274589","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141995151-the-warmth-of-other-suns","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}