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A Witness to History
Atria
August 2013
On Sale: July 30, 2013
Featuring: Eugene Allen
112 pages ISBN: 1476752990 EAN: 9781476752990 Kindle: B00D5778XM Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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