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Alex Haley

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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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A plausible statement, but no published source as yet located for it prior to 2007, and though most cite Haley as the author the earliest of these cites it with an obscure attribution to "Benhur R".

 
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