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First published in 1987, Inventing the Truth quickly grew into the best-selling compendium of the Writer's Craft series and continues to be a lasting hit. In this revised and expanded edition with a new introduction by its editor, William Zinsser, the voices of original contributors - Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, and Toni Morrison - join with new pieces by Jill Ker Conway, Eileen ...

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Written By: Annie Dillard, Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Ian Frazier, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Alfred Kazin, Toni Morrison, Eileen Simpson

"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."James ...

Manufacturer: Random House
Written By: Henry Louis Jr Gates

Black Americans are at the heart of the greatest achievements of our history, from music to law, from politics to sports, from literature to religion. Now the two leading African-American intellectuals of our day show us why the twentieth century was The African-American Century, with one hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans from W. E. B. Du Bois to Oprah ...

Manufacturer: Free Press
Written By: Cornel West

Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know one’s distant tribal ...

Manufacturer: Crown
Written By: Henry Louis Jr Gates

This collection from the rich literature of African American autobiography documents the experience of being black in America, from slavery to present day, in the words of Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, and forty other contributors.

Manufacturer: Pantheon
Written By: Henry Louis Jr Gates

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Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
Written By: Henry Louis, Jr. Gates