"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of ...
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police. In his trademark style -- a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage -- Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here"
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing with full number line ending with a "1", in unclipped first state dust jacket showing the original price of $24 and with only Toni Morrison quote to front cover and her blurb to rear cover with no mention of the New York Times. Small neat previous owner's name to top corner of first blank, no other markings in original dust jacket with minor edgewear. A contemporary classic that has now been published dozens of times, uncommon in the first printing.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing, with full number line of Coates' breakthrough best seller that has now gone through dozens of printings and went on to win both the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction. A fine clean tight copy with neat previous owner's name to front free endpage in equally fine unclipped first state dust jacket that has neither the NYT Bestseller line nor the National Book Award notation or sticker. Now uncommon in this, the true first edition.
I am 76 and have never before been exposed to what it is like to grow up black, especially grow up as a black male. This is an eye opener. Short, punchy, specific and very well written. I gave it as a Christmas present to my grown children. Coates writes it as a letter to his son. I have started to reread my copy. Buy now. Read it. Give it as a gift.