Special Book Review Number 2
Title: The Warmth of Other Suns
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Summary: In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970,, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
Dates Read: Jan. 1 to 6, 2021
Breakdown of Info: 5/5 stars
Diversity of Opinion: 5/5 stars
Minimum Bias: 5/5 stars
Use of Research: 5/5 stars
Overall: 20/20 stars
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| Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns |
Goodreads Rating: 5/5 stars
Review: I read this as an audiobook, which I think worked better for me in absorbing the information despite it being about 22 hours of listening time. This was a hard book for me to get through. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story fo America's Great Migration was very detailed, which I greatly appreciated. The fact that Wilkerson interviewed so many people really shows throughout the book. She focuses on the lives of 3 people in particular to convey how so many African Americans left their homes in the South in the hopes for a better life in the northern and western US states. I learned a lot more about the first half of the 19th century here in the US than I actually did in most of my US history courses up until university. I highly recommend this as a read, and I personally hope to get the physical book soon.
This review does have a corresponding post on my history bookstagram. See that post here: @historybookreads bookstagram review of The Warmth of Other Suns.
Sounds like a fascinating read! I'm really interested in the early 19th century lately.
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