Butler
A Witness to History
$42.87
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2018
Summary
This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen—a White House butler who served eight presidents over the course of thirty-four years.
During the presidencies of Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, Eugene Allen was a butler in the most famous of residences: the White House. An African American who came of age during the era of Ji…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501195600 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1501195603 |
| Author: | Wil Haygood |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atria / 37 Ink |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 153mm x 190mm |
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Wil Haygood
A Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and a writer for the Washington Post, Wil Haygood has been described as a cultural historian. He is the author of a trio of iconic biographies. His King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., told the story of the enigmatic New York congressman and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. That was followed–after publication of a family memoir–by In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., which was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Music Biography Award, the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard Wright Legacy Award, and the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2009, he wrote Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, which told the story of the famed New York pugilist known as much for his prowess in the ring as his elegant style outside of it. Haygood is an associate producer of Lee Daniels’ The Butler.
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