What Book Should We Read With Our Green Beer?

I had my first ever green beer this evening for St. Patrick's Day.

I don't know what kind of beer it really was. I just asked for a green beer and took what I was given.

Along with my beer, I read a book.

I acquired the skill of reading in a loud place a long time I ago when I read a book while the punk rock band was playing at the Jockey Club in Newport, Kentucky.

The bar in Houston today was quite noisy for St. Patricks' Day.  I'm glad I've retained over a quarter-century the ability to concentrate on a book over the din.   

The book I read with my green beer was The Making Of African America--The Four Great Migrations by Ira Berlin.

From the New York Times review of this book---"Berlin builds this new narrative around four massive migrations: the horrific trans-Atlantic passage that brought slavery to North America in the 17th and 18th centuries; the forced movement of a million slaves from the East Coast to the inland South’s cotton kingdom in the early 1800s; the Great Migration of six million African-Americans from the South to the urban North in the first half of the 20th century; and the current influx of immigrants from Africa, South America and the Caribbean..."

With this book and my green beer, you see that I am all about diversity. 

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