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The beautiful struggle : a father, two sons, and an unlikely road to manhood Cover Image

The beautiful struggle : a father, two sons, and an unlikely road to manhood / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

ISBN: 9780385527460
ISBN: 0385527462
ISBN: 9780385520362
ISBN: 0385520360
Physical Description: 223 pages : map, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Spiegel &amp; Grau, 2008.

Beautiful struggle : (other title)

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (Author).

Summary:

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.