An edition of Alex Haley's Queen (1983)

Alex Haley's Queen

the story of an American family

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An edition of Alex Haley's Queen (1983)

Alex Haley's Queen

the story of an American family

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Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, tells about his great-great-grandfather who came to Alabama from Ireland, married a slave and then fathered a daughter—Haley’s grandmother, Queen.

The story begins in Ireland, where Haley’s white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The two men become business partners and James Jackson makes his fortune. 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. James’s son, Jass Jackson, inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled 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. This is history at its most compelling—from the Irish sod to the settlement of the South; from the Trail of Tears to the battlefield at Manassas; from the agonies of slavery to the tribulations of freedom—all rendered with the eye for telling detail and the sense of historical significance that readers have come to expect of Haley.

A miniseries adaptation called Alex Haley’s Queen and starring Halle Berry, Danny Glover, Tim Daly, Ann-Margret and Ossie Davis aired on CBS on February 14, 1993.

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Publisher
Avon Books
Language
English
Pages
789

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Cover of: Queen
Queen: roman
1993, Plon
in French
Cover of: Alex Haley's Queen
Alex Haley's Queen: the story of an American family
1993, Avon Books
in English
Cover of: Alex Haley's Queen
Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family
1993, W. Morrow
in English - 1st ed.

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New York

Edition Notes

Sequel to: Roots.

Gift of Dr. Joan Rahn.

Genre
Biography.
Other Titles
Queen.

The Physical Object

Pagination
789 p. ;
Number of pages
789

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15542582M
Internet Archive
alexhaleysqueenshale00hale
ISBN 10
0380702754
OCLC/WorldCat
29700875
Library Thing
245877
Goodreads
154710

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September 20, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Western Washington University MARC record.