The Butler (Signed First Edition)

Haygood, Wil

ISBN 10: 1476752990 / ISBN 13: 9781476752990

Published by 37ink, 2013

About this Item

Signed First Edition, First Printing of this movie tie-in book for the Lee Daniels 2013 film, "The Butler." The film tracks the experiences of a Black White House butler, who served presidents in the 20th century, played by Forrest Whitaker. Late in life, the former butler and survivor of a dramatic life, receives an audience with the nation's first Black president. The project developed from Wil Haygood's reporting for the Washington Post on Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served eight 20th century presidents and who Haygood found in a quest for a reaction to the election of President Barack Obama from the perspective of a Black person who served on the White House in the Jim Crow era. Here Haygood retells Allen's story while also recounting the development of the movie project in which Allen would become the model for the fictional Cecil Gaines. A highlight of the book is 32 photo pages that mix photos from Allen's actual White House experiences with movie stills. Signed by Wil Haygood on the half title page. 96 pages (plus photo pages). Has creases on the flaps of the dust jacket. There's a removable Politics and Prose signed by the author sticker on the front cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Butler (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: 37ink
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476752990
• ISBN 13: 9781476752990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars six Oscar winners, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey (honorary and nominee), Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, and Robin Williams; as well as Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Alex Pettyfer, Alan Rickman, and Liev Schreiber.

With a foreword by the Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler not only explores Allen's life and service to eight American Presidents, from Truman to Reagan, but also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin’s jewel The Devil Finds Work, that explores the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast of the movie.

About the Author

A Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and a writer for the Washington Post, Wil Haygood has been described as a cultural historian. He is the author of a trio of iconic biographies. His King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., told the story of the enigmatic New York congressman and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. That was followed—after publication of a family memoir—by In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., which was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Music Biography Award, the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard Wright Legacy Award, and the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2009, he wrote Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, which told the story of the famed New York pugilist known as much for his prowess in the ring as his elegant style outside of it. Haygood is an associate producer of Lee Daniels’ The Butler.