Finding your roots : the official companion to the PBS series / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; foreword by David Altshuler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrities--United States--Genealogy.

Celebrities.

United States--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 330 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Summary:

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before.

Contents:

Foreword / by David Altshuler

Genetic gumbo : Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr.

The long arc of freedom : John Lewis and Cory Booker

What's in a name? : Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

Redemption : Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

The children of Abraham : Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl, and Yasir Qadhi

From the Old World to the New : Robert Downey Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Shadows : Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons

Crossings : Margaret Cho, Sanjay Gupta, and Martha Stewart

Neither slave nor free : Wanda Sykes, John Legend, and Margarett Cooper

In the footsteps of conquistadors : Michelle Rodriguez, Linda Chavez, and Adrian Grenier.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781469618005 ;

OCLC:

875742479