Wil Haygood, Author . Knopf $26.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-375-40354-5
In this moving, exhaustive life of one of America's greatest entertainers, Haygood (King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.) casts Sammy Davis Jr. as a man shifting between identities, between the worlds of black people...
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Wil Haygood, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-395-44094-0
Boston Globe reporter Haygood ( Two on the River ) weaves together interviews and research to create a nuanced yet vivid narrative about the crusading Harlem congressman who served in the House for 24 years and whose controversial behavior and...
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Wil Haygood, Author Mariner Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-70068-6
An astute and nuanced portrait of the controversial life and career of the crusading Powell, for 24 years Harlem's congressman. (Mar .)
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Wil Haygood, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (360p) ISBN 978-0-395-67170-2
Though all stories of happy families are said to be alike, very few are blessed by such an open-hearted, clear-sighted chronicler as Haygood, a reporter for the Boston Globe and biographer of Adam Clayton Powell (King of Cats). His story focuses on...
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Wil Haygood. Knopf, $32.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-307957-19-1
Haygood (The Butler) effectively uses the 1967 Senate confirmation hearings for Thurgood Marshall’s barrier-breaking nomination to the Supreme Court as the framing device for a biography of this pioneering American. Marshall, who became the first...
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Wil Haygood. Knopf, $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3186-1
High school teams bear the symbolic weight of the civil rights movement in this intense sports saga. Journalist Haygood (The Butler) follows the Tigers of East High, an all-black school in Columbus, Ohio, through state championship basketball and...
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Wil Haygood. Knopf, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-65687-6
The struggle of Black directors and actors to make movies on equal terms is explored in this sweeping historical study. Journalist and biographer Haygood (The Butler) surveys the Black presence in American cinema back to the silent era, starting...
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Wil Haygood. Atria, $18 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-47675-2990
In 2008, journalist Haygood pitched a feature to The Washington Post following his hunch that Barack Obama would be elected president. Seeking an African-American who had worked in the White House during the Civil Rights era, Haygood found Eugene Al-
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Wil Haygood, read by David Oyelowo, Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, and Lee Daniels. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, two CDs, 2.5 hrs., $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-6895-8
A companion to Lee Daniel’s recent film, The Butler, Haygood provides a history of Eugene Allen in his role as butler to eight U.S. presidents. Coupled with this is Haygood’s account of how the original Washington Post article about Allen turned...
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