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Control # 1 2014430509
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20210922144833.0
Fixed Data 8 141218s2013 nyuaf b 000 0beng d
LC Card 10    $a 2014430509
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Tag 16 16 $a016473064$2Uk
ISBN 20    $a9781476752990
ISBN 20    $a1476752990
ISBN 20    $z9781476753270 (ebook)
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)ocn853758519
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LC Call 50 00 $aE840.8.A385$bH39 2013
Dewey Class 82 04 $a973.92092 A425Zh 2013
ME:Pers Name 100 $aHaygood, Wil,$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe butler :$ba witness to history /$cWil Haygood.
Title:Varint 246 30 $aWitness to history
Edition 250    $aFirst 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$b37 Ink/Atria,$c2013.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axii, 96 pages, [32] pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c20 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:General 500    $a"The story that inspired the motion picture"--Dust jacket.
Note:General 500    $aIncludes an essay on the history of the portrayal of African Americans in motion pictures.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 79).
Note:Content 505 00 $tForeword /$rLee Daniels --$tThe butler's journey --$tMoving image --$tFive presidents in the struggle.
Abstract 520    $aWhen acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan.During his thirty-four years of service, Allen became what the Independent described as a "discreet stagehand who for three decades helped keep the show running in the most important political theatre of all." While serving tea and supervising buffets, Allen was also a witness to history as decisions about America's 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 Kennedy's 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 Award-nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin's jewel The Devil Finds Work, that explores the story 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.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aAllen, Eugene,$d1919-2010.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xStaff$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aButlers$zWashington (D.C.)$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfrican American household employees$zWashington (D.C.)$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfrican Americans$zWashington (D.C.)$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xElection$y2008.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aObama, Barack.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aDaniels, Lee,$d1959-
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