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A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid: A Novel Audiobook
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Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America's most controversial American icons.
"[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a cult-classic . . . Highly recommended." —Library Journal
Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history.
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“[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry…It could become a cult-classic…Highly recommended.”
— Library Journal
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About the Authors
Percival Everett is the acclaimed author of seven books, including Dr. No, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction; The Trees, finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and Telephone, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. His novel Erasure was the basis for the feature film American Fiction, winner of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California.
About James Fouhey
James Fouhey is an actor and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator living in New York City. He received classical training at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He has recorded more than 150 audiobooks across a variety of genres, including science fiction, romance, young adult fiction, and children’s fiction.