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The Butler: A Witness to History - Hardcover By Haygood, Wil - GOOD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 1476752990
- Book Title
- Butler : a Witness to History
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Item Length
- 7.5 in
- Edition
- 37
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, Labor, Historical, United States / General
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Gallery Books
ISBN-10
1476752990
ISBN-13
9781476752990
eBay Product ID (ePID)
168220551
Product Key Features
Edition
37
Book Title
Butler : a Witness to History
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, Labor, Historical, United States / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-430509
Reviews
The Butler: A Witness to History should get just as much, if not more, attention than the film which uses its story for thematic foundation. Wil Haygood adds Eugene Allene(tm)s chronicle to his impressive list of essential works on great figures in black and American history., Wil Haygood blends the political with the personal in this portrait ofWhite House butler Eugene Allen. Allen, an African-American, served eight US presidents (from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan) for 34 years - a span of time that included remarkable gains in civil rights., "Wil Haygood blends the political with the personal in this portrait of White House butler Eugene Allen. Allen, an African-American, served eight US presidents (from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan) for 34 years e" a span of time that included remarkable gains in civil rights.", Wil Haygood blends the political with the personal in this portrait of White House butler Eugene Allen. Allen, an African-American, served eight US presidents (from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan) for 34 years - a span of time that included remarkable gains in civil rights., The Butler: A Witness to History should get just as much, if not more, attention than the film which uses its story for thematic foundation. Wil Haygood adds Eugene Allen's chronicle to his impressive list of essential works on great figures in black and American history.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
973.92092 A425Zh
Synopsis
With a foreword by Lee Daniels A mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's sympathy and inspired a major motion picture directed by Oscar nominee Lee Daniels, The Butler-- which stars Oprah Winfrey and eight Oscar winners (including Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Jane Fonda), and is already being hailed as epic and buzz-worthy. Coming this fall from The Weinstein Company. Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election and when he did he wanted to publish an article about a black person who had worked in the White House as a servant, someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture as to make the very thought of a Black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no less than eight presidents, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan--and in so doing became "a discreet stage hand who for three decades helped keep the show running in the most important political theatre of all." While serving tea and supervising buffets, Allen was also a witness to history as decisions about America's most momentous events were being made. Here he is at the White House while Kennedy contemplates a moon landing; here he is again when Kennedy's widow returns from that fateful day in Dallas. Here he is when Johnson and his cabinet debate Vietnam and here he is again when Ronald Reagan finally got tough on apartheid. Perhaps hitting closest to home was the Civil Rights legislation that was developed, often with passions flaring, right in front of his eyes even as his own community of neighbors, friends and family were contending with Jim Crow America. Also included in the book is an essay in the vein of James Baldwin's jewel, The Devil Finds Work, that explores the history of blacks in Hollywood as well as over 45 pictures of the butler, Eugene Allen, and his family, the Presidents he served, and the remarkable cast., From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars six Oscar winners, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey (honorary and nominee), Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, and Robin Williams; as well as Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Alex Pettyfer, Alan Rickman, and Liev Schreiber. With a foreword by the Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler not only explores Allen's life and service to eight American Presidents, from Truman to Reagan, but also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin's jewel The Devil Finds Work , that explores the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast of the movie., A companion book to The Butler which traces the Civil Rights movement and the evolution of American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen.
LC Classification Number
E840.8
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