My Soul Is Rested - Softcover

Raines, Howell

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9780399118531: My Soul Is Rested
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0399118535 ISBN 13: 9780399118531
Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1977

Synopsis

Interviews with men and women, both black and white, who participated in various ways in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s provide a first-hand history of the movement, its leaders, supporters, and opponents, and its accomplishments

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About the Author

Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was executive editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1992.

Review

"So touching, so exhilirating ... no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy."
—Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review

"Deeply affecting and searingly vivid"
—Atlanta Journal

"Remarkable ... the realities of our social history are described in a kind of magnificent humaneness."
—Chicago Tribune Book World

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Publisher
Putnam Adult
Publication date
1977
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0399118535
ISBN 13 
9780399118531
Binding
Paperback
Rating
  • 4.47 out of 5 stars
    299 ratings by Goodreads

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780140067538: My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

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ISBN 10:  0140067531 ISBN 13:  9780140067538
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1983
Softcover