Beautiful Struggle The By Coates, Ta-nehisi

<i>The Beautiful Struggle</i> is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 <i>Between the World and Me</i>, hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading."<br><br>This small and perfectly formed epic follows the lives of boys on the journey to manhood in black America and beyond in 1980s Baltimore, a city on the verge of chaos. These youngsters needed to learn fast, and Ta-Nehisi’s father, Paul, was a fine teacher: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian, and an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement. <i>The Beautiful Struggle</i> is a moving father-and-son story about the reality that tests us, and the love that saves us.