Roots is Haley's second book following his collaboration on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Haley earned a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977 for Roots & the television miniseries garnered numerous awards, including nine Emmys & a Peabody. An estimated 80 to 130 million viewers watched the last episode of Roots, generating greater interest in the novel and prompting thousands of Americans. It was adapted into the hugely popular, 12-hour television miniseries, ROOTS, in 1977, & a 14-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979. Author Alex Haley speaks on the reaction to his book 'Roots' and the subsequent groundbreaking TV mini-series on ABC. The publication of Roots, along with two enormously popular televised versions of itRoots in 1977 and Roots: The Next Generations in 1979made Haley an international celebrity and lecturer. Acknowledged more as a work of the imagination today rather than strict scholarship, Roots was the publishing sensation of the 1970's & remains the most important 20th century literary event in black literature. A near fine copy in original 1/4 black and bronze cloth covered boards gilt lettered at the spine in a very good dustwrapper with a closed tear at the bottom of the rear panel. Kunta's family wishes the very warm best to you and your family! - Alex Haley'. DO NOT FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE The dramatization of Alex Haleys family line from post Civil War America to the writers search for his roots.

Early Trade Edition with a very warm full page presentation inscribed by Haley on the ffe. In one of the early pages of Roots (Doubleday), Alex Haley describes the ancient ceremony in which one of his African.

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