Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH - NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT

Hailed by Toni Morrison as required reading, a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race (Rolling Stone)

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN - NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - O: The Oprah Magazine - The Washington Post - People - Entertainment Weekly - Vogue - Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle - Chicago Tribune - New York - Newsday - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of race, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son--and readers--the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of the National Book Award-winning number one New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, as well as the critically acclaimed essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power. Coates has won the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story 'The Argument for Reparations.' He is a MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellow. With his wife and children, he resides in New York.

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ISBN 13	9781925240702
ISBN 10	1925240703
Title	Between the World and Me
Author	Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Text Publishing
Year published	2015-07-16
Number of pages	166
Prizes	Winner of National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2015 (United States), Winner of Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction 2015 (United States), Winner of PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay 2016 (United States), Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2015 (United States), Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2016 (United States)
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