The beautiful struggle : a memoir
Coates, Ta-Nehisi2016
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Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons through inner-city adolescence--and through Baltimore in the Age of Crack--and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacy and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. This book follows their divergent paths, and their father's steadfast efforts to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction.--From publisher description.
Main title:
The beautiful struggle : a memoir / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2016.
Collation:
227 pages : 1 map, 1 genealogical table ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784785345
Dewey class:
975.26004960730092975.2600496
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
287817
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 975.2600496 COA | Available |