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As the 30th anniversary 2006 edition recalls, Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family was a big popular success: in 1976, the year it was published, “the book sold over one million copies” and in 1977 the miniseries created out of it “was watched by an astonishing 130 million people.” Dav...

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Main Author: Elisa Bordin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2014-12-01
Series:Iperstoria
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Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/426