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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies People |
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Named Person: | Eugene Allen; Barack Obama; Lee Daniels; Eugene Allen |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wil Haygood |
ISBN: | 9781476752990 1476752990 147675327X 9781476753270 |
OCLC Number: | 853758519 |
Notes: | "The story that inspired the motion picture"--Jacket. Includes an essay on the history of the portrayal of African Americans in motion pictures. |
Description: | xii, 96 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Lee Daniels -- The butler's journey -- Moving image -- Five presidents in the struggle. |
Other Titles: | Witness to history Lee Daniels' The butler. |
Responsibility: | Wil Haygood. |
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Abstract:
A companion book to The Butler which traces the Civil Rights movement and the evolution of American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen.
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"The Butler: A Witness to History should get just as much, if not more, attention than the film which uses its story for thematic foundation. Wil Haygood adds Eugene Allen's chronicle to his impressive list of essential works on great figures in black and American history." * ArtsNash * "Wil Haygood blends the political with the personal in this portrait of White House butler Eugene Allen. Allen, an African-American, served eight US presidents (from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan) for 34 years - a span of time that included remarkable gains in civil rights." * The Christian Science Monitor * Read more...
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- Allen, Eugene, -- 1919-2010.
- Obama, Barack.
- Lee Daniels' The butler.
- Daniels, Lee, -- 1959-
- Allen, Eugene.
- Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography.
- Butlers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
- African American household employees -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century.
- Race relations in motion pictures.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008.
- Race relations -- History.
- African Americans.
- United States.
- Butler.
- USA.
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