Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama : Out of Print : See 9781476709512 by Diane McWhorter
	ISBN-10:   0743217721 ISBN-13:   9780743217729 Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Edition:   Reprint Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   January 2002 Pages:   720 Format:   Paperback
Subjects
BIRMINGHAM (ALA.)_RACE RELATIONS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS_UNITED STATES AFRICAN AMERICANS_CIVIL RIGHTS ALABAMA_HISTORY
Description/Notes
'The Year of Birmingham, ' 1963, was one of the most cataclysmic periods in America's long civil rights struggle. Diane McWhorter, journalist and daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI documents, interviews with black activists and former Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the city, the personalities, and the events that brought about America's second emancipation. Jon Wiener The Nation The most important book on the movement since Taylor Branch'sParting the Waters.It should become a classic. David Herbert Donald Author ofLincoln A tour de force, comparable in importance to J. Anthony Lukas'sCommon Groundand Taylor Branch'sParting the Waters.Carry Me Homeis destined to become a classic in the history of the civil rights revolution. Francine Prose O Magazine Her narrative takes on the suspense of a detective novel....Carry Me Homeis an ambitious, panoramic history with enough personal memoir to make us see why Diane McWhorter cannot forget -- and wants us to remember -- the momentous events that took place during one historic year in one Alabama city. The Washington Post Book World Carry Me Homeis a case study in how the privileged and powerful can operate behind the scenes to control and, when it is in their interests, undermine and corrupt the social fabric. The New Yorker McWhorter's own involvement in the story...reenergizes the struggle, serving as a reminder that history is always personal. Publishers Weekly(starred) The story of civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama, has been told before -- from the unspeakable violence to the simple, courageous decencies -- but fresh, sometimes startling details distinguish this doorstop page-turner told by a daughter of the city's white elite. [McWhorter] brings a gripping pace and an unusual, twofold perspective to her account, incorporating her viewpoint as a child...as well as her adult viewpoint as an avid scholar and journalist. Paul Rosenberg The Denver Post McWhorter's remarkable clarity and candor, her relentless focus on the enormous forces of stasis, reaction and accommodation that defined life in Birmingham, illuminate this past so vividly we cannot avoid the unspoken challenge to finally come to terms with it, however difficult that may yet be. Paul Rosenberg