"In Making 'Roots,' Matthew Delmont gives us a terrific and highly readable account of the making of Alex Haley’s book–cum–television miniseries, which had a major impact on television and on the ways Americans imagined slavery and its legacies. Making 'Roots' is a prodigiously researched and immensely compelling account of book and miniseries, of author and culture industry-the roots and branches of a genre-defying, commercially blockbusting brand of history writing."-Eric Lott, The Graduate Center, City University of New York "For millions of Americans, Roots established a new way of thinking about race and ethnicity in and long after the 1970s. Roots also gave rise to one of the seminal cultural moments of twentieth-century America, which Matthew Delmont deftly excavates and illuminates in Making 'Roots ,' a must-read book that demands a re-evaluation of Roots and its conjuror, Alex Haley."-Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities "Long before over-the-counter DNA testing and hashtag history lessons, Roots was the connective tissue between America’s racial past and its hopes for a post-racial future. Popular culture’s roots run through Roots, and, in giving us his history of this touchstone, Delmont has produced a scholarly touchstone himself."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University, and host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots Delmont not only narrates the personal odyssey Alex Haley took in discovering-and imagining-his ancestral epic for a mass audience in the 1970s but also reveals in fascinating detail the powerful mix of emotional and economic forces that led to the creation of one of the twentieth century’s most indelible-and debated-renderings of slavery. Dramatic episodes come alive." - Publishers Weekly"In his absorbing, behind-the-scenes account of the making of Roots, Matthew F. His ability to describe these findings in an engaging style keeps the pages turning.
Reviews "Delmont builds his narrative from extensive archival research.
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