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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.20973
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Label: Vanguard Press
Manufacturer: Vanguard Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 899
Publication Date: May 22, 2007
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Sales Rank: 3343
Studio: Vanguard Press
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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.
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Rating:  - Errors, Errors, Everywhere
It was a well written story.Unfortunately, there were a ridiculous number of grammar and spelling errors as well as a couple incorrect facts that really devalued the book for me.I couldn't read 10 pages without seeing a mistake like "the the".I was especially disappointed by these errors since it was the special 30th Anniversary reprint of the book.I would have thought they would fix most of these mistakes.As a history teacher, the factual errors were even worse for me.He wrote that the ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Book and One Worth Remembering!
I loved this book when it first came out and am now watching the miniseries all over again.It is wonderful to read and behold.Many of the family's lore has been proven to be fiction but does it matter?It is a great book and wonderful idea for a story.It brought back the idea of tracing people's roots that is still with us today.A wonderful read.
Rating: - A must read
anybody interested in American history or family this is the bookto read. Hailey is a must read for eveybody.
Rating:  - Reviw for the Kindle editon
I read this book on Kindle a couple of months ago.I remember watching the mini series as a kid but had never read the book.I'm not going to go into the literary aspects because that has been covered, in it's good and bad points already.I will say I'm glad I've read it.I won't consider it a completely accurate history lesson, but it does make a person think past normal boundaries.This book is formatted well for Kindle, it had no formatting issues. The fact I read it on Kindle was "handy" because ... Read More
Rating: - A beloved book marred by flaws
I love Roots and think the whole world should read it.It's an important and vital book about American history, family history, and triumph over hardship.I loved Roots the first time I read it twenty years ago, and I love it still, having just finished it yesterday, BUT...
1)If only Alex Haley hadn't plagiarized whole sections of the book (see Wikipedia's article on the author Harold Courlander)
2)If only Haley really HAD been related to Kunta Kinte (genealogists state he ... Read More
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