Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to …
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Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. The novel spent 46 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including 22 weeks in that list’s top spot. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second mini-series, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979.
The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.
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Roots
Paperback, 704 pages
English language
Published April 5, 2007 by Vintage.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-936281-4Copied ISBN!
Roots: the saga of an American family
Hardcover, 704 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2000 by Gramercy Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-517-20860-1Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Paperback, 899 pages
English language
Published May 22, 2007 by Vanguard Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59315-449-3Copied ISBN!
Roots
school & library binding
English language
Published Oct. 7, 1999 by Rebound by Sagebrush.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8085-1103-8Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Paperback, 912 pages
Published May 3, 2016 by Da Capo Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-306-82485-2Copied ISBN!
Roots
729 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1977 by Dell.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-440-17464-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 3389837
- Goodreads:
- 546018
Roots
Paperback, 608 pages
Published Nov. 24, 2015 by Ishi Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-4-87187-761-9Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
audio cd
English language
Published May 22, 2007 by BBC Audiobooks America.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60283-290-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 150484508
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
mp3 cd
English language
Published May 22, 2007 by BBC Audiobooks America.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60283-289-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 154659044
Wurzeln (Roots)
Paperback, 717 pages
German language
Published Dec. 1, 1999 by Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-596-22448-7Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
audio cd
English language
Published May 22, 2007 by BBC Audiobooks America.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60283-197-1Copied ISBN!
ROOTS 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2007 by VANGUARD Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7394-8318-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1043434022
Roots
688 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1976 by Doubleday.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-385-03787-7Copied ISBN!
Roots
1610 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1979 by G. K. Hall.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8161-6639-8Copied ISBN!
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