Analysis of Haley's plagiarism of The African : typescript (photocopy), [1978?]

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Analysis of Haley's plagiarism of The African : typescript (photocopy), [1978?]

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Ribbon copy note on page [i]: "the ... analysis of Alex Haley's plagiarism of The African [N.Y.: Crown, 1967] in his writing of Roots [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976] was prepared ... as a basic document for the Courlander vs. Haley lawsuit." The suit, filed in New York in 1977, was settled in 1978 in favor of Courlander.

ii, 168 [i.e. 251] leaves.

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Haley, Alex, 1921-1992

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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Auto...

Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996

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