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August 1976

  • Roots: The Saga of an American Familyby Alex Haley
    4.56 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished August 17, 1976

    When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived acro...