Isaac Pope The Spirit of an American Century

Intimate view of 100 years of American history seen through Isaac Pope an AfricanAmerican centenarian whos a spellbinding storyteller and unsung hero of war the civil rights and workers movements and the tale of the nations spirit loss and love Grandson of enslaved people son of sharecroppers he yearned toward the American Dream never came near it but spent decades helping others do so His life shows tectonic shifts in some interactions between races that show the way forward