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Gail Lumet Buckley

Biography

Gail Lumet Buckley

Gail Lumet Buckley is the author of the national bestsellers AMERICAN PATRIOTS: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, and THE HORNES: An American Family, which became a PBS "American Masters" documentary. She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, New York Daily News, Washington Post, Vogue, Playboy and People.

Gail Lumet Buckley

Books by Gail Lumet Buckley

by Gail Lumet Buckley - History, Memoir, Nonfiction

Beginning with her great-great grandfather, Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta, Gail Lumet Buckley follows her family’s two branches: one that stayed in the South, and the other that settled in Brooklyn. Through the lens of her relatives’ momentous lives, Buckley examines major events throughout American history --- from Atlanta during Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, and then from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement.