000322974 000__ 02058cam\a22003494a\4500 000322974 001__ 322974 000322974 005__ 20210513120232.0 000322974 008__ 080107s2008\\\\nyub\\\\\\\\\\000\0aeng\\ 000322974 010__ $$a 2007052166 000322974 019__ $$a176924985 000322974 020__ $$a9780385520362 000322974 020__ $$a0385520360 000322974 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn190784908 000322974 035__ $$a322974 000322974 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dIG#$$dC#P$$dBWX$$dBUR 000322974 043__ $$an-us-md 000322974 049__ $$aISEA 000322974 05000 $$aF189.B153$$bC63 2008 000322974 08200 $$a975.2/6004960730092$$aB$$222 000322974 1001_ $$aCoates, Ta-Nehisi. 000322974 24514 $$aThe beautiful struggle :$$ba father, two sons, and an unlikely road to manhood /$$cTa-Nehisi Coates. 000322974 250__ $$a1st ed. 000322974 260__ $$aNew York :$$bSpiegel & Grau,$$c2008. 000322974 300__ $$a227 p. :$$bmap ;$$c22 cm. 000322974 520__ $$aPaul 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. 000322974 60010 $$aCoates, Ta-Nehisi. 000322974 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$zMaryland$$zBaltimore$$vBiography. 000322974 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$zMaryland$$zBaltimore$$xSocial conditions. 000322974 650_0 $$aFathers and sons$$zMaryland$$zBaltimore$$vBiography. 000322974 650_0 $$aStreet life$$zMaryland$$zBaltimore. 000322974 651_0 $$aBaltimore (Md.)$$vBiography. 000322974 85210 $$bmcc$$h975.260049$$i.C63 000322974 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:322974$$pGLOBAL_SET 000322974 980__ $$aBIB 000322974 980__ $$aBOOK 000322974 994__ $$aC0$$bISE