The Butler: A Witness to History Author: Wil Haygood | Language: English | ISBN:
B00D5778XM | Format: PDF
The Butler: A Witness to History Description
From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture:
Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars six Oscar winners, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey (honorary and nominee), Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, and Robin Williams; as well as Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Alex Pettyfer, Alan Rickman, and Liev Schreiber.
With a foreword by the Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels,
The Butler not only explores Allen's life and service to eight American Presidents, from Truman to Reagan, but also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin’s jewel
The Devil Finds Work, that explores the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast of the movie.
- File Size: 61183 KB
- Print Length: 112 pages
- Publisher: Atria / 37 Ink (July 30, 2013)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D5778XM
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,926 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #15
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National - #22
in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National > African-American & Black - #52
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical
- #15
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National - #22
in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National > African-American & Black - #52
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical
I bought this book because I wanted to read the full story of the butler's life and time in the White House. Instead, it was an article about the writer meeting the butler and his wife. It took me less than an hour to read the entire part about the butler. Halfway through the book the butler dies and the book becomes a book about blacks in film. Not what I paid for or wanted.
By SheriZ
I was expecting some interesting facts and a great storyline... But what I got was information about the movie. Waste of money... Quite disappointed!
By LaToia Ormond
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