{"product_id":"2940170379309","title":"Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eThe year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eCaptured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even \"Ambassadors from Mars.\" Back home, their mother never accepted that they were \"gone\" and spent 28 years trying to get them back.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eThrough hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? \u003cem\u003eTRUEVINE \u003c\/em\u003eis a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today. \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102396334320,"sku":"2940170379309","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170379309_p0.jpg?v=1763708725","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170379309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}