![]() Rewrite” and is offered in Heritage Auctions’ upcoming Historical Manuscripts Signature Auction on April 3, 2014. It is twenty-four pages long with the heading, “2 nd chapter. No doubt, Roots is an important work.Īn early typed manuscript of chapter 2 of Roots has recently surfaced. TV program), especially as it won a slew of awards and changed television and America. In fact, most of the nation noticed the controversial and racially-charged miniseries (the final episode of the miniseries is the third highest-rated U.S. ![]() Haley a Pulitzer Prize in 1977.īut I do remember bits of the Roots miniseries that aired on ABC in 1977-it formed some of my earliest television memories, along with Captain Kangaroo. I also didn’t notice when the book earned Mr. I was far too young in 1976 to notice as the book sold almost 2 million copies within eight months of its publication and spent 22 weeks atop the New York Times best seller list (it was non-fiction). Michael Eric Dyson summed it up well in the 2006 introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition of Roots: “Haley’s monumental achievement helped convince the nation that the black story is the American story.” If you know anything about American history, you know that was no small achievement. It has been 38 years since Alex Haley published Roots in 1976. ![]() ![]() ![]() Historical, Rare Books - Icon Spotlight by Heritage Editorial ![]()
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