About the Book: A sweeping saga of historical significance including ethnocentricity and the philosophy of the struggle to attain a lifetime dream. A man's life and times from the years 1870 to 1961 is narrated. Charlie Stevens, an Anglo-Saxon, persuades an African-American friend to join him on his journey to California to escape the poverty and prejudice of East Tennessee. For five years they work their way westward; the journey often humorous and sometimes fearful of the Ku Klux Klan. Their ambition is to form a partnership to purchase the cheap land Los Angeles advertised during that...
About the Book: A sweeping saga of historical significance including ethnocentricity and the philosophy of the struggle to attain a lifetime dream. A ...