Root Differences
Saturday August 11, 2007
Alex Haley was born on August 11, 1921. He's most famous for Roots, which was awarded the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1977. Haley once said: "What Roots gets at in whatever form, is that it touches the pulse of how alike we human beings are when you get down to the bottom, beneath these man-imposed differences."
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I wish I had read his book. I did see the t.v. series and didn’t care much for it. I am sure the book is far superior to the televised version. When books are turned into movies or televised, things are almost always altered and one loses so much of what the author has tried to get across.