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Roots Study Guide

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by Alex Haley
About 124 pages (37,233 words)
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David Herbert Donald, in a review in Commentary, December, 1976

Chester J. Fontenot, "Radical Upbringing," in Prairie Schooner, Spring, 1977, pp 98-9.

Eugene D Genovese, Roll Jordan Roll- The World the Slaves Made, Vintage, 1974

Russell Warren Howe, "An Elusive Past," in The New Leader, January 3, 1977, pp. 23-4

Philip Nobile, "Was Roots One of the Great Literary Hoaxes'" in The Toronto Star, March 8, 1993, p A13

Clarence Page, "Alex Haley's Enduring Truths," in The Courier Journal, March 11,.....

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