Roots, New edition--------------------------------------------------Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen,farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, AlexHaley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was thisyoung man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguishbrought to the slave markets of the new world, who held the key toHaley's deep and distant past.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Alex Haley taught himself to write during a twenty-yearstint in the US Coast Guard. He became its first Chief Journalist,a position he held until he retired in 1959 to become a magazine writerand interviewer. His first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X,after which he spent twelve years researching and writing Roots. AlexHaley died in Seattle, Washington in 1992.