Abstract
Lawrence Otis Graham attempts to tell the important story of the Bruces and their legacy in The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty. Starting his story before the Civil War, Graham follows the “First Black Dynasty” through its ultimate fall from grace in mid-twentieth-century New York City. As with his previous bestseller, Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class (1999), Graham takes on the ambitious task of capturing the meaning and importance of an underappreciated group of American’s.
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2007
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Yellin, Eric. "'The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty,' by Lawrence Otis Graham." Review of The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty. H-Net, October 2007. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13737.
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