Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the new world, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.

Roots

Biographies & Memoirs

ALEX HALEY

Community & Culture

Vintage Books

[*Abridged][Read by Avery Brooks]This monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning saga and iconic bestseller begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. In that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. Presented abridged on 12 CDs.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Vintage

Presents the personal story of the man who rose from street  hoodlum to become a dynamic leader of the black power struggle,  offering insights into the man behind the image, his beliefs, his  goals, and his impact on American history. Book available.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

MALCOLM X

Ballantine Books

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times. "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." TEH NEW YORKTIMES

ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America. Praise for The Autobiography of Malcolm X “Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.”—Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father “Extraordinary . . . a brilliant, painful, important book.”—The New York Times “A great book . . . Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose, will make it stand as a monument to the most painful truth.”—The Nation “The most important book I’ll ever read, it changed the way I thought, it changed the way I acted. It has given me courage I didn’t know I had inside me. I’m one of hundreds of thousands whose lives were changed for the better.”—Spike Lee “This book will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle.”—I. F. Stone

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Attallah Shabazz

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The African American leader discusses his political philosophy and reveals details of his life, shedding light on the ideas that enabled him to gain the allegiance of a still growing percentage of the black population.

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Ballantine Books (T)

Alex Haley's Queen: Story of an American Family

David Stevens

William Morrow & Co.

Roots 30th Anniversary Edition.

One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots opened up the minds of Americans to one of the darkest and most painful parts of its past. This anniversary edition reminds the generation that originally read it that there are issues that still need to be discussed.

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Perfection Learning

Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots is a collection of articles the Pulitzer Prize-winning author wrote for Reader's Digest from 1954 to 1991. Haley's stories are timeless, as powerful and relevant today as when they were first written. In 1966, Alex Haley, a contributing writer for Reader's Digest, wanted to tell his family's "story-history." For ten years, Reader's Digest financed Haley's research and travel. The result of this historic collaboration was Roots, the Pulitzer-winning book. Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots is a celebration of the 30th anniversary of that epic classic and a recognition of a lifetime of writings that changed the nation. In this 176-page paperback book, Haley shares stories of triumph and resilience, of race and inequality, and the search that led to the groundbreaking book and TV miniseries, Roots. The collection includes an excerpt from Roots and the candid article "Aboard the African Star," in which Haley reveals his struggles a

Alex Hailey: The Man Who Traced America's Roots - His Life, His Works (with DVD)

Reader's Digest Books

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Books by ALEX HALEY

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Roots

Roots

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley's Queen: Story of an American Family

Roots 30th Anniversary Edition.

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Hailey: The Man Who Traced America's Roots - His Life, His Works (with DVD)