On the Shoulders of Giants

My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Raymond Obstfeld; Richard Allen (Narrator)
(Tantor Media, MP3 CD, 9781400154289)

Publication Date: April 2007

Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Compact Disc (April 2007), Compact Disc (April 2007), Hardcover (January 30, 2007)

Categories: Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs

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In On the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable basketball star and bestselling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites readers on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace, through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in our history, revealing the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life.




About the Author

Richard Allen is professor and chair of cinema studies at New York University. He is the author of numerous essays on Hitchcock, coeditor of two anthologies, "Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays" and "Hitchcock: Past and Future," and with Sidney Gottlieb he edits the "Hitchcock Annual" for Wallflower Press.

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