Publication

1997 - Random House, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

56,500 words, Guess

Page Count

226 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads1969454
  • LibraryThing385157

Classifications

  • LCCE185.86 .G374 1997

Alternate Titles

  • Thirteen ways to look at a Black man

Description

In these stunning portraits of prominent black American men, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., takes us behind closed doors and into the lives, minds, and experiences of some remarkable people to reveal, through stories of individual lives, much about American society and race today. James Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Broyard, Albert Murray - all these men came from modest circumstances and all achieved preeminence. These men and others speak of their lives with candor and intimacy, and what emerges from this portfolio of influential men is a strikingly varied and profound set of ideas about what it means to be a black man in America today.

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