Finding your roots : the official companion to the PBS series
Title:
Finding your roots : the official companion to the PBS series
Author:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
xiv, 330 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
The author investigates the geneological histories of twenty-five prominent Americans, including Cory Booker, Martha Stewart, and Michelle Rodriguez.
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Foreword / by David Altshuler -- Genetic gumbo : Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. -- The long arc of freedom : John Lewis and Cory Booker -- What's in a name? : Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada -- Redemption : Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon -- The children of Abraham : Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl, and Yasir Qadhi -- From the Old World to the New : Robert Downey Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal -- Shadows : Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons -- Crossings : Margaret Cho, Sanjay Gupta, and Martha Stewart -- Neither slave nor free : Wanda Sykes, John Legend, and Margarett Cooper -- In the footsteps of conquistadors : Michelle Rodriguez, Linda Chavez, and Adrian Grenier.
Added Uniform Title:
Finding your roots (Television program)
ISBN:
9781469618005
Format :
Book
