Finding your roots
Subtitle: the official companion to the PBS series
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; foreword by David Altshuler
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781469618005
Subjects: Celebrities; Genealogy; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Finding your roots (Television program)
Description: The author investigates the geneological histories of twenty-five prominent Americans, including Cory Booker, Martha Stewart, and Michelle Rodriguez.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by David Altshuler; title: Genetic gumbo : Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr.; title: The long arc of freedom : John Lewis and Cory Booker; title: What's in a name? : Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada; title: Redemption : Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon; title: The children of Abraham : Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl, and Yasir Qadhi; title: From the Old World to the New : Robert Downey Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal; title: Shadows : Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons; title: Crossings : Margaret Cho, Sanjay Gupta, and Martha Stewart; title: Neither slave nor free : Wanda Sykes, John Legend, and Margarett Cooper; title: In the footsteps of conquistadors : Michelle Rodriguez, Linda Chavez, and Adrian Grenier.