9780871136923 - Long Way to Go: Black and White in America von Coleman, Jonathan (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(+). First. viii + 451 pages, 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1997). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 451 pages; Description: viii, 451 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Racism--United States. United States--Race relations. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to writer Arthur Schlesinger on the flyleaf. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 451pp. Slightly bumped corners else fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. viii, [2], 451, [3] pages. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has Autographed Copy sticker on front. Minor edge soiling noted. Jonathan Coleman (born 1951) is an American author of literary nonfiction living in New York City. Jonathan Coleman worked as a book editor with Knopf and Simon & Schuster. In 1980, in a piece about publishing, he was profiled in Time magazine as one of the best editors in the field. In 1986, Coleman began teaching literary nonfiction writing at the University of Virginia through 1993. He lectures at universities throughout the country. Coleman's books have included Exit the Rainmaker (1989), the story of Jay Carsey, a college president who abruptly abandoned his marriage and career and disappeared, a book the Los Angeles Times Book Review called "A fascinating, symbolic statement of the American psyche"; At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder, and Betrayal, about the Franklin Bradshaw murder (which was hailed as "a masterwork of reporting" by the Washington Post Book World, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into a miniseries); and Long Way to Go: Black and White in America, which Library Journal called "A stunner.Coleman's narrative technique is superb.a brilliant book." In 2011, Coleman coauthored the autobiography of basketball legend Jerry West-West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life-which received critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller. The Los Angeles Times named it one of the best nonfiction books of 2011. Derived from a Kirkus review: In the best tradition of journalistic portraits of urban race relations, a writer's earnest search for some sign of hope in an all-too-typically segregated American city. Coleman spent several months in Milwaukee, a city with a particularly stark racial gap, exploring the intransigent and increasingly dramatic division of American society. Framed by the events that feed the media's discourse on race, Coleman's account follows his journey, variously enlightening and frustrating, through the conversations that do and do not take place among people facing their own community in crisis. Coleman's feature-journalism writing style is unremarkable, but it is his reportorial skills that count, and the real voices of his book are those of the women and men struggling with a momentous historical burden as they conduct lives near Milwaukee's racial fault lines: community activists, city politicians, determined single parents, whites attempting to face their own roles in Milwaukee's dividedness. Their accounts of their experiences, ideals, and anger speak very vividly for themselves, and Coleman effortlessly weaves the pasts that brought them to this present-day impasse into a broad historical context. Indeed, Coleman is constantly attentive to the impact of wider issues and other social divisions (especially class). But he invariably returns to the unique way that race penetrates deep into people's perceptions, assumptions, and actions, including his own, even as he gains an understanding of the failures of integration as it has been practiced. Coleman and his readers depart Milwaukee with a richly expanded consciousness of their scope and seriousness, and of the lives at stake in them. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. Drawing on countless interviews (marked by astonishing frankness), on diaries, journals, and letters, on events he himself witnessed, and weaving it all into the context of history, Coleman introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters: an alderman who revives a chapter of the Black Panthers and threatens guerilla warfare if certain demands are not met . a sixties revolutionary who becomes school superintendent . a white woman who insists she has 'earned' her racism . another who becomes painfully aware of the 'privileges' she has just because she is white . a black family determined that gangs not force them out of their neighborhood . a Rotarian who wonders why, given everybody's 'good intentions', things are still the way they are. By looking at America through the window of Milwaukee, Coleman's journey through the minefield of race becomes our journey. His book is a marvelously constructed tapestry whose power is cumulative, yet one that allows us to look unflinchingly at each individual strand of race in the 1990s - from the ongoing changes in welfare and affirmative action to the successes and failures of integration; from the appointment of Clarence Thomas and the Los Angeles riots to O. J. Simpson and the Million Man March; from life in the ghetto to the lives of those who have escaped it and now exist uneasily in the mainstream; from the bitterness of white conservatives - and the rise of black onesto the disillusionment of white liberals; and many others.