@article{322974,
      author = {Coates, Ta-Nehisi.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/322974},
      title = {The beautiful struggle : a father, two sons, and an  unlikely road to manhood /},
      publisher = {Spiegel & Grau,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {322974},
      pages = {227 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2008},
}