Sitting at the doctor’s office and forgot my book! ? Anyway, has anyone read the book Roots by Alex Haley?

Very much. At the time there was also mini-series done on tv. It was a big deal.

The landmark dramatization of Alex Haley’s classic saga followed his ancestors from Africa into slavery and then to their freedom in the post-Civil War South. Americans watched in record numbers as the epic aired on eight consecutive nights and went on to receive an unprecedented 37 Emmy nominations (winning for nine, including Outstanding Limited Series). Haley wrote in TV Guide: ` `Roots’ speaks of the American human drama, in which ancestrally we all came from somewhere across the ocean.’

a 70‐yearold author from Bethesda, Md., who contended there were substantial similarities between “Roots” and his own earlier novel, “The African.” He sued in Federal District Court in Manhattan for more than half the profits of “Roots.”

AS the trial was about to reach a climax with summations by the opposing lawyers, they issued the following statement: “The suit has been amicably settled out of court. Alex Haley acknowledges and regrets that vatious materials from ‘The African’ by Harold Courlander found their way into his book ‘Roots.’ “ Supposedly, the settlement was in the hundreds of thousands.