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...Roots,Haley...
Roots, Alex Haley's bestselling whatzit (not quite a novel, it is not quite history either) has come to television. Its unprecedented twelve-hour, eight-nights-in-a-row run begins on ABC Sunday, Jan. 23. It turns out to be a work of some historical interest, though surely not in the way its creators intended...
...first four hours, which bring Kunta Kinte, Haley's own great-great-great-great-great-grandfather from a happy childhood in an African village to a flogging in the slave quarters of a Virginia plantation, offer almost no new insights, factual or emotional, about the most terrible days of the black experience. Instead, there is a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions by which, since abolitionist days, popularizers have tried to comprehend a crime so monstrous that, like the Holocaust, it is beyond anyone's ability to re-create in intelligent dramatic terms...
NONFICTION 1--Roots, Haley...
...Roots, Haley (1) 2-Passages, Sheehy (3) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (2) 4-Blind Ambition, Dean (4) 5-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (5) 6-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (6) 7-Adolf Hitler, Toland (9) 8-The Hite Report, Hite (7) 9-Blood and Money, Thompson (8) 10-A Civil Tongue, Newman