Smoketown
The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
$39.99
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2019
Summary
A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s. “Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good story…terrific, eminently readable…fascinating” (The Washington Post).
Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble, but doomed, working-class citizens. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far la…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501122422 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501122428 |
| Author: | Mark Whitaker |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 462g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Mark Whitaker
Mark Whitaker is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, My Long Trip Home, and Smoketown. The former managing editor of CNN Worldwide, he was previously the Washington bureau chief for NBC News and a reporter and editor at Newsweek, where he rose to become the first African-American leader of a national newsweekly.
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