The Hornes: An American Family
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Book Overview
An inspired, intimate history of musical legend Lena Horne and her family, written by Lena's daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. More than a loving biography of a true show business legend, Lumet Buckley traces Lena's, as well as her own, roots as the latest in a long family line of America's Black elite.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0452259592
ISBN13:9780452259591
Release Date:June 1987
Publisher:Plume Books
Length:1 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
The Hornes; An American Family
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I am interested in African American culture and I always wanted a bio of Lena Horne. She is so multifacted as a performer.
An exemplary family history
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
An absorbing trip through American history, courtesy of a family of vivid dreamers and high achievers. Gail Lumet Buckley had access to a remarkable family archive of scrapbooks, photographs and journals and does great justice to it, crafting a multigenerational portrait that is enlightening and highly readable. Although Buckley's mother, Lena Horne, is the most famous member of the family, the book makes it clear that she was only one of its noteworthy success stories. For anyone wanting to know more about what America was like for middle-class blacks in the Reconstruction and beyond, "The Hornes" is a wonderful place to begin.
the hornes
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Fabulous insight into a family with ties to every important event in US History.
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