{"product_id":"the-warmth-of-other-suns-1","title":"The Warmth of Other Suns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e BESTSELLER  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME'S\u003c\/i\u003e TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE  ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOF THE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES'S\u003c\/i\u003e FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS \u003c\/i\u003eBEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eOPRAH DAILY \u003c\/i\u003eBEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth' \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Stauffer, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What she's done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber' \u003c\/b\u003eLynell George, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize  The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction  The \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Heartland Prize  The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction  The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism  NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut  Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e FINALIST: The PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction  Dayton Literary Peace Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Salon, Newsday, The Daily Beast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Economist, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Guardian, The Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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\u003cb\u003e'You will never forget these people' \u003c\/b\u003eGay Talese\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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' \u003c\/b\u003eLettecha Johnson, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54029576667474,"sku":"9780141995151","price":21.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_e4ae3fca-ac05-44b0-9bbf-2dabe353655f.jpg?v=1784319620","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-warmth-of-other-suns-1","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}