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A white Washington Post writer recreates his cross-country journey, listening to poor, rich, unknown, and famous African Americans to gain perspective on his mixed race children's future. Reprint.
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"A message in a bottle floated out to white America about black America's remarkable diversity and resilience."--"New York Newsday"
"Mr. Harrington . . . brings a keen reportorial eye and a graceful writing style to his immense project."--"New York Times Book Review"
"Candid and rich. . . . Harrington remains a good companion, in part because he's wonderfully frank."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Mr. Harrington . . . is gifted with an unintrusive style that permits his subjects to speak freely. Some of them share with him perceptions that they have been nurturing nearly all their lives."--"Washington Times"
"While Harrington wrote this book for white, middle-class American readers, blacks will enjoy his vignettes as well. [He] records voices from tomorrow's black history taking place today, voices that otherwise might have been overlooked." --"Black Enterprise"
"Vivid. . . . a fascinating and enlightening montage for blacks and whites alike."--"People"
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"Mr. Harrington . . . brings a keen reportorial eye and a graceful writing style to his immense project."--"New York Times Book Review"
"Candid and rich. . . . Harrington remains a good companion, in part because he's wonderfully frank."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Mr. Harrington . . . is gifted with an unintrusive style that permits his subjects to speak freely. Some of them share with him perceptions that they have been nurturing nearly all their lives."--"Washington Times"
"While Harrington wrote this book for white, middle-class American readers, blacks will enjoy his vignettes as well. [He] records voices from tomorrow's black history taking place today, voices that otherwise might have been overlooked." --"Black Enterprise"
"Vivid. . . . a fascinating and enlightening montage for blacks and whites alike."--"People"
"Honest and devoid of flackery . . . so different from what we're used to reading about blacks that it seems almost subversive." "Atlantic""
"A message in a bottle floated out to white America about black America's remarkable diversity and resilience." "New York Newsday""
"Vivid. . . . a fascinating and enlightening montage for blacks and whites alike." "People""
Magisterial. . . . An engrossing, multilayered portrait"as well as a touching personal odyssey." "Kirkus Reviews""
An award-winning journalist and former staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine, Walt Harrington is currently Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of At the Heart of It: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives and American Profiles: Somebodies and Nobodies Who Matter (both from the University of Missouri Press).
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- PublisherPerennial
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0060924624
- ISBN 13 9780060924621
- BindingPaperback
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