In Black and White by Wil Haygood
The untold story of Sammy Davis, Jr.: This incisive biography and sweeping cultural history conjures the many worlds Davis, Jr.] traversed, and shows how the issue of race, in his own mind and in the minds of his fans and detractors, shaped his career and life (The New York Times). For decades one of America's most recognizable stars, the real Sammy Davis, Jr. has long remained hidden behind the persona the performer so vigorously generated--and so fiercely protected. Here Wil Haygood brings Davis's life into full relief against the backdrop of an America in the throes of racial change. He made his living entertaining white people but was often denied service in the very venues he played, and in his broad and varied friendships--not to mention his romances--Davis crossed racial lines in ways few others had. In Black and White vividly draws on painstaking research and more than two hundred and fifty interviews to trace Davis, Jr.'s journey from the vaudeville stage to Broadway, Hollywood, and, of course, Las Vegas. It is an important record of a vanished America--and of one of its greatest entertainers.Wil Haygood is a visiting distinguished professor at Miami University in Ohio, where he teaches media, journalism, and film. He worked as a national and overseas correspondent for nearly three decades, first at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and subsequently at The Washington Post. He is the author of The Butler: A Witness to History, Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Country Torn Apart, and a Wonderful Season of Healing, Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Transformed America, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, In Black and White: The Life and Times of Sammy Davis Jr., Two on the River, and King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Claiborne. The Butler was later turned into a critically praised film starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, directed by Lee Daniels. For his research for Tigerland, Haygood was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellowship Literary Prize. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375403545 |
| ISBN 10 | 037540354X |
| Title | In Black and White |
| Author | Wil Haygood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2003-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 516 |
| Prizes | Winner of Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award (Nonfiction) 2004, Winner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2004 |
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