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Rent Simple's Uncle Sam: With a New Introduction by Akiba Sullivan Harper
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: May 2000
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 180
Synopsis
Hughes’s most popular and beloved fictional creation was Jesse B. Semple, a Harlem man from Virginia known as "simple' who was based on a conversation Hughes had with a defense-plant worker in 1943. Simple’s romantic escapades, the racial indignities he suffered, his sardonic outlook on life, and the humor with which Hughes infused his story, won him innumerable fans in the many newspaper in which the tales appeared.