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TITLE: Gail Buckley
SPEAKER: Gail Buckley
EVENT DATE: 10/12/2002
RUNNING TIME: 29 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Speaker Biography: Gail Buckley's most recent book, "American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm," has won several awards including the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Her family history, "The Hornes," was a national bestseller. She collaborated on an American Masters documentary about her mother, Lena Horne, and narrated a documentary on blackAmerican families for PBS. Buckley lives in New York City.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2002