![]() ![]() ![]() In this, his final book, Alex Haley has created a truly multicultural family saga, the capstone to one of the great, classic American stories. His father was a professor of agriculture. His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strong-willed slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen - the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley's grandmother. Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was born August 11, 1921, in Ithaca, New York to Simon Haley and Bertha George Palmer. James's son Jass Jackson inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force. It quickly became a best-seller and was later converted to a miniseries. The two men become business partners, and James Jackson makes his fortune. Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel by Alex Haley published in 1976. ![]() From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley's white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. Once again, this is a personal saga, but one played out against the broad canvas of American history. Lovers of sweeping generational epics will find much to rejoice in here. "Now, from the author of Roots, comes Alex Haley's Queen - the saga of his father's family. ![]()
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