{"product_id":"the-warmth-of-other-suns-isabel-wilkerson","title":"The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e BESTSELLER  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME'S\u003c\/i\u003e TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE  ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOF THE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES'S\u003c\/i\u003e FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS \u003c\/i\u003eBEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eOPRAH DAILY \u003c\/i\u003eBEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth' \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Stauffer, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What she's done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber' \u003c\/b\u003eLynell George, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize  The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction  The \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Heartland Prize  The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction  The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism  NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut  Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e FINALIST: The PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction  Dayton Literary Peace Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Salon, Newsday, The Daily Beast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson gives us this definitive, vividly dramatic account of how these journeys unfolded. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on interviews with more than a thousand people, and access to new data and official records, \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of America's Great Migration 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country journeys, as well as how they changed their new homes forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'You will never forget these people' \u003c\/b\u003eGay Talese\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The mass migration of African Americans out of the US south forever changed the country's cultural fabric - and Wilkerson's history of this period is full of sacrifice and hope ... a long overdue account' \u003c\/b\u003eLettecha Johnson, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Wilkerson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCaste: The Origins of Our Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e. Her debut work won multiple awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eCited as a best book of the year by thirty news organizations, \u003ci\u003eWarmth\u003c\/i\u003e was named to \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's list of the Ten Best Books of the Decade, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e, was a No.1 bestseller and heralded in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas 'an instant American Classic.'  It appeared on forty best of the year lists, more than any other work of nonfiction, and was honored by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e as the No.1 nonfiction book of the year. In choosing \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e for her Fall 2020 book club, Oprah Winfrey declared it 'the most important book I have ever selected.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal for 'championing the stories of an unsung history.' She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 640 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65806299955549,"sku":"K087125572","price":17.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8712557200001A.jpg?v=1788472771","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-warmth-of-other-suns-isabel-wilkerson","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}