In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Haygood, Wil

In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804172516)

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In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Haygood, Wil

In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.

$20.00
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Haygood, Wil

In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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The untold story of Sammy Davis, Jr.: This incisive biography and sweeping cultural history conjures "the many worlds [Davis, Jr.] traversed, and shows how the issue of race, in his own mind and in the minds of his fans and detractors, shaped his career and life" (The New York Times).

For decades one of America's most recognizable stars, the real Sammy Davis, Jr. has long remained hidden behind the persona the performer so vigorously generated--and so fiercely protected.

Here Wil Haygood brings Davis's life into full relief against the backdrop of an America in the throes of racial change. He made his living entertaining white people but was often denied service in the very venues he played, and in his broad and varied friendships--not to mention his romances--Davis crossed racial lines in ways few others had.

In Black and White vividly draws on painstaking research and more than two hundred and fifty interviews to trace Davis, Jr.'s journey from the vaudeville stage to Broadway, Hollywood, and, of course, Las Vegas. It is an important record of a vanished America--and of one of its greatest entertainers.

Author: Wil Haygood
ISBN-10: 080417251X
ISBN-13: 9780804172516
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2020
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 37
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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By Wil Haygood
By Wil Haygood
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Wil Haygood is currently visiting distinguished professor in the department of media, journalism, and film at Miami University, Ohio. For nearly three decades he was a journalist, serving as a national and foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and then at The Washington Post. He is the author of The Butler: A Witness to History; Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing; Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America; Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson; In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.; Two on the River; King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir. The Butler was later adapted into the critically acclaimed film directed by Lee Daniels, starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. Haygood has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellowship Literary Award for his research for Tigerland. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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