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Title: American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley ISBN: 0-375-50279-3 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Brilliant Work Whose Time Has Come!
Comment: Gail Buckley's extensively researched and lengthy book flows from page to page as it chronicles the Black soldier from the earliest beginnings of the Colonial era to the frontlines of Viet Nam to the dusty corridors of the Persian Gulf. Names, familiar and unknown, are introduced and profiled with ease by the author. The prejudices and biases endured by these gallant men and women make their respective stories an inspirational journey into the human spirit and willingness to overcome.
A few photographs are found mid-length and provide the reader with a view of the heroes/heroines mentioned in the text. This is a book for the history/sociology buff as well as those that have an interest in the American military.
I find it a shame that more have not read or reviewed it. If one more can be inspired to purchase the book, then I, as a reviewer, have done my job.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best
Comment: There are not many pieces of work detailing the African American's contribution in the military, but Ms Buckley's work "American Patriots" is good. As an ex-military that served during Desert Storm, it did me proud to read how we as a people served, sometimes in the most terrible and racist of conditions, and give their best to a nation that didn't treat them favorably in return. I am sorry that there were some mistakes in there(human error) I didn't know, but am glad someone took the time to give proper credit. Despite of it, I wouldn't dismiss the whole work as revisionist. Someone took the time to tell the story of how we served admirably for this country, and we can read it. I agree that it should be in the schools for our children to read and every library within this country's paremeters should own a copy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Historically informative
Comment: Extremely informative historical piece of writing laid out in an interesting and chronilogically easy to follow format. Excellent book that was well researched with lot of cross references to historical events, places and figures. Writer Gail Buckley did outstanding job of providing historical contexts to her research with the more "infamous" figures in our country's history. This is the type of history book that I painfully missed in my education of our country and military. A must read for anyone wanting a more expansive and "complete" view of the "forgotten american's" contributions to our military's history/success, fight for personal democracy, justice and equality.
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Title: Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces by Kai Wright ISBN: 1579122531 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Black Saga: The African American Experience: A Chronology by Charles M. Christian, Sari J. Bennett ISBN: 1582430004 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Honoring Sergeant Carter : Redeeming a Black World War II Hero's Legacy by Allene Carter, Robert L. Allen ISBN: 0066212367 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Who Came First? New Clues to Prehistoric Americans by Patricia Lauber ISBN: 0792282280 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ISBN: 0465027296 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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