This is history at its most compelling-from the Irish sod to the settlement of the South from the Trail of Tears to the battlefield at Manassas from the agonies of slavery to the tribulations of freedom-all rendered with the eye for telling detail and the sense of historical significance that readers have come to expect of Haley.Ī miniseries adaptation called Alex Haley’s Queen and starring Halle Berry, Danny Glover, Tim Daly, Ann-Margret and Ossie Davis aired on CBS on February 14, 1993.Used Good (5 available) Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen-the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley’s grandmother. James’s son, Jass Jackson, inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. We do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, but there is no escaping the fact that it has been. Too often, when characters are turned into representatives of the Zeitgeist, they dance to the music of time rather than to. Condition : Used Book This is a used book. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force. Screenwriter Stevens (who completed the late Haley’s Queen, 1993) has now crafted from another incomplete Haley novel one of those heartwarming generational sagasdestined as a miniseries on CBS-TV in Novemberthat relies on individuals as eyewitnesses to history. The author of Roots became a millionaire after the book’s publication. His book, Kunta Kinte: The Life of a Slave Trader, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Special Investigation. The two men become business partners and James Jackson makes his fortune. Alex Haley gave America a gift that will live on for a long time as part of the bicentennial celebration.
From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley’s white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born.
Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, tells about his great-great-grandfather who came to Alabama from Ireland, married a slave and then fathered a daughter-Haley’s grandmother, Queen.
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