Simple's Uncle Sam: With a New Introduction by Akiba Sullivan Harper

by Langston Hughes

Book Overview

Langston Hughes's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collection

Langston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was also a prolific writer of theater, autobiography, and fiction. None of his creations won the hearts and minds of his readers as did Jesse B. Semple, better known as "Simple." Simple speaks as an Everyman for African Americans in Uncle Sam's America. With great wit, he expounds on topics as varied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809086816
• ISBN13: 9780809086818
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Langston Hughes gets 5 stars for this!!

The life of poverty and discrimination is all about Simple, the character in Simple's Uncle Sam. He goes through everything and tells about it in his short stories. From his ideas for a Negro President to his ideas for an ugly contest instead of a beauty contest, this man's mind comes alive with explicit detail, description, and opinion.