Roots: The Enhanced Edition: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Enhanced Edition features rare interviews with author Alex Haley from the NBC News Archives that took place as the Roots phenomenon unfolded over 30 years ago. There are also photos, footage, and recordings from the Haley family, all of which provide a unique understanding of Alex Haley’s journey researching and writing the book. In new video interviews NBC’s Tom Brokaw and David Wilson reflect on the story’s lasting impact.
Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.
Roots: The Enhanced Edition is truly definitive--adding unmatched, sweep, context and insight to this ever-relevant classic.
The Enhanced Edition features: • Full text of the book • Video introduction and interview with David Wilson of TheGrio.com • New video interview with Tom Brokaw • Footage of author Alex Haley provided by the NBC News Archives and the Haley family, including Today Show interviews with Tom Brokaw, Roots-related events in the 1970s, an extended interview about the book, and more (45 minutes of video) • Recordings of Alex Haley speaking about researching and writing the book (30 minutes of audio) • 10 rare photos from the Haley family • Essay by Alex Haley • Reading Group Guide • Introduction by Michael Eric Dyson • Extended biography of Haley
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Roots: The Enhanced Edition: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Enhanced Edition features rare interviews with author Alex Haley from the NBC News Archives that took place as the Roots phenomenon unfolded over 30 years ago. There are also photos, footage, and recordings from the Haley family, all of which provide a unique understanding of Alex Haley’s journey researching and writing the book. In new video interviews NBC’s Tom Brokaw and David Wilson reflect on the story’s lasting impact.
Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.
Roots: The Enhanced Edition is truly definitive--adding unmatched, sweep, context and insight to this ever-relevant classic.
The Enhanced Edition features: • Full text of the book • Video introduction and interview with David Wilson of TheGrio.com • New video interview with Tom Brokaw • Footage of author Alex Haley provided by the NBC News Archives and the Haley family, including Today Show interviews with Tom Brokaw, Roots-related events in the 1970s, an extended interview about the book, and more (45 minutes of video) • Recordings of Alex Haley speaking about researching and writing the book (30 minutes of audio) • 10 rare photos from the Haley family • Essay by Alex Haley • Reading Group Guide • Introduction by Michael Eric Dyson • Extended biography of Haley
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Roots: The Enhanced Edition: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Enhanced Edition features rare interviews with author Alex Haley from the NBC News Archives that took place as the Roots phenomenon unfolded over 30 years ago. There are also photos, footage, and recordings from the Haley family, all of which provide a unique understanding of Alex Haley’s journey researching and writing the book. In new video interviews NBC’s Tom Brokaw and David Wilson reflect on the story’s lasting impact.
Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.
Roots: The Enhanced Edition is truly definitive--adding unmatched, sweep, context and insight to this ever-relevant classic.
The Enhanced Edition features: • Full text of the book • Video introduction and interview with David Wilson of TheGrio.com • New video interview with Tom Brokaw • Footage of author Alex Haley provided by the NBC News Archives and the Haley family, including Today Show interviews with Tom Brokaw, Roots-related events in the 1970s, an extended interview about the book, and more (45 minutes of video) • Recordings of Alex Haley speaking about researching and writing the book (30 minutes of audio) • 10 rare photos from the Haley family • Essay by Alex Haley • Reading Group Guide • Introduction by Michael Eric Dyson • Extended biography of Haley
Alex Haley (1921-1992) was a bestselling and award-winning writer whose works, including Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, centered on the struggles of African Americans.
Any novel that begins in West Africa and follows members of a family across an ocean to America will be compared to Alex Haley’s seminal Roots, which has now been turned into two television miniseries. Haley’s historical epic didn’t just change the literary landscape; arguably, it changed American culture.
We used to call it a cliché, now we might prefer the term “enduring meme,” but either way, everyone knows what you mean when you say: it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. It’s a reference, however body-shaming and gender-biased, to the buxom soprano letting out the high notes at the climax of a dramatic […]