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American Tapestry电子书

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作       者:Swarns, Rachel L.

出  版  社:Amistad

出版时间:2012-06-19

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Michelle Obama's?family saga?is a remarkable, quintessentially American story a journey from slavery to the White House in five generations.?Yet, until now, little has been reported on the First Lady's roots. Prodigiously researched, American Tapestry ?traces the complex and fascinating tale of Michelle Obama's ancestors, a history that the First Lady did not even know herself. Rachel L. Swarns, a correspondent for the New York Times , brings into focus the First Lady's black, white, and multiracial forebears, and reveals for the first time the identity of Mrs. Obama's white great-great-great-grandfather a man who remained hidden in her lineage for more than a century. American Tapestry ?illuminates the lives of the ordinary people in Mrs. Obama's family tree who fought for freedom in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; who endured the agonies of slavery, the disappointment of Reconstruction, the displacement of the Great Migration, and the horrors of Jim Crow to build a better future for their children. Swarns even found a possible link to the Jewish Reform movement. Though it is an intimate family history,?American Tapestry ?is also the collective chronicle of our changing nation, a nation in which racial intermingling lingers in the bloodlines of countless citizens and slavery was the crucible through which many family lines black, white, and Native American were forged. Epic in scope?and beautifully rendered, this is a singularly inspiring story with resonance for us all.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

PROLOGUE: The Mystery of Michelle Obama’s Roots

PART I - Migration

ONE - Phoebe, the Wanderer

TWO - St. Louis

THREE - Siren Song of the North

FOUR - A Family Grows in Chicago

FIVE - Exploding Dreams

SIX - A Child of the Jazz Age

SEVEN - A Man of Promise

EIGHT - Stumbling Backward

NINE - Love in Hard Times

TEN - Struggling and Striving

ELEVEN - The Search for the Truth: Cleveland

PART II - The Demise of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow

TWELVE - A Man on the Rise

THIRTEEN - Left Behind

FOURTEEN - Neither Black nor White

FIFTEEN - The Reckoning

SIXTEEN - Birmingham, the Magic City

SEVENTEEN - Two Brothers, Two Destinies

EIGHTEEN - The One-Armed Patriarch

NINETEEN - Twilight

TWENTY - The Search for the Truth: Atlanta

PART III - Slavery and Emancipation

TWENTY-ONE - A Slave Girl Named Melvinia

TWENTY-TWO - Journey to Georgia

TWENTY-THREE - South Carolina Gold

TWENTY-FOUR - A Child Is Born

TWENTY-FIVE - Born Free

TWENTY-SIX - Exodus

TWENTY-SEVEN - The Civil War

TWENTY-EIGHT - Uneasy Freedom

EPILOGUE: Melvinia’s Secret

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Photographic Section

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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