{"product_id":"the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-migration-1","title":"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration","description":"In this epic  beautifully written masterwork  Pulitzer Prizewinning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities  in search of a better life. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER HEARTLAND AWARD WINNER DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times  USA Today  O: The Oprah Magazine  Amazon  Publishers Weekly  Salon  Newsday  The Daily Beast NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker  The Washington Post  The Economist  Boston Globe  San Francisco Chronicle  Chicago Tribune  Entertainment Weekly  Philadelphia Inquirer  The Guardian  The Seattle Times  St. Louis Post-Dispatch  The Christian Science Monitor From 1915 to 1970  this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people  and gained access to new data and official records  to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded  altering our cities  our country  and ourselves. With stunning historical detail  Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney  who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago  where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and  in old age  voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling  who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem  where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights  saw his family fall  and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster  who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career  the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career  which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos  as well as how they changed these cities with southern food  faith  and culture and improved them with discipline  drive  and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment  The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold  remarkable  and riveting work  a superb account of an unrecognized immigration within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative  the beauty of the writing  the depth of its research  and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein  this book is destined to become a classic.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44923658698805,"sku":"ByrdShop_1469233010","price":223.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1469233010_5e53b19d-1406-4600-a307-801c6e44dabc.jpg?v=1768647529","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-migration-1","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}