Post by Mark Reese: Fiction/ Non-Fiction: re-read Alex Haley’s Roots while living in Annapolis, the port Haley’s ancestor...

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Amy Cuddy @amyjccuddy · Nov 3, 2022

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Tell me about a nonfiction book that both (1) emotionally moved you as you read it, and (2) permanently changed the way you see the world?

Mark Reese @uzbekmodernist · Nov 4, 2022

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Fiction/ Non-Fiction: re-read Alex Haley’s Roots while living in Annapolis, the port Haley’s ancestor was sold as a slave. The novel changed the way I understood historical memory and representing, glossing over, our dark past.

Book Aug 17, 1976

Roots

by Alex Haley

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