The Butler: A Witness to History Hardcover - 2013
by Haygood, Wil
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- Title The Butler: A Witness to History
- Author Haygood, Wil
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher 37 Ink, New York
- Date 2013-07-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # V13M-00953
- ISBN 9781476752990 / 1476752990
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 6 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Obama, Barack
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
While serving tea and supervising buffets, Allen was also a witness to history as decisions about AmericaâÈçs most momentous events were being made. Here he is at the White House while Kennedy contemplates the Cuban missile crisis; here he is again when KennedyâÈçs widow returns from that fateful day in Dallas. Here he is when Johnson and his cabinet debate Vietnam, and here he is again when Ronald Reagan is finally forced to get tough on apartheid. Perhaps hitting closest to home was the civil rights legislation that was developed, often with passions flaring, right in front of his eyes even as his own community of neighbors, friends, and family were contending with Jim Crow America.
With a foreword by the Academy AwardâÈ' nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler also includes an essay, in the vein of James BaldwinâÈçs 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.
