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  • Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    I finally started reading "Roots". It's an engaging and important story but I soon started to have the niggling feeling that it's probably not as well-researched as is commonly assumed. And wouldn't you know it: it's not really a novelization of facts but rather... more

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  • Rated by moritherapy on Aug 08 2008, 12:02pm

    I finally started reading "Roots". It's an engaging and important story but I soon started to have the niggling feeling that it's probably not as well-researched as is commonly assumed. And wouldn't you know it: it's not really a novelization of facts but rather mostly a work of the imagination - and not just Alex Haley's imagination but also Harold Courlander's, whose book "The African" was clearly plagiarized by Haley. - A good and useful read anyway, just needs to be taken with a few grainfuls of salt.