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Title: A good generational saga!
Review: I reread ROOTS the first time in about twenty or twenty-five years. I thought the book perfect the first time I read it. I noted several flaws the second time, though. But no one had done a book like ROOTS before--it was truly revolutionary and started black and white people thinking about the barbarity of slavery and how difficult it was for black people to research their ancestors. Also, it taught how attitudes evolved over the generations. If Haley wrote the book today, it would be entirely a different work, so try to overlook the flaws. What Haley did was open people's eyes. Since reading ROOTS I have read many books on slavery and can recommend two recently published: The Journal of Leroy Jeremiah Jones and The Diary of a Slave Girl, Ruby Jo.
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