Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown [Paperback]

Description: One of the most extraordinary autobiographies ever written--the definitive account of African-American youth in the ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write his autobiography. The result, Manchild in the Promised Land, traces Claude Brown's own transformation from a hardened, streetwise young criminal to a successful, self-made man. This autobiographical novel, in print for more than thirty years, has been widely praised for its portrayal of the "lost" generation of African-Americans whose parents left the sharecropping lifestyle of the South for the crowded inner cities of the North. Told with both fierce and dignified anger, Brown's story is a timeless testimonial to survival that will inspire and enlighten readers for many generations to come. Claude Brown was born in New York City and grew up in Harlem. At age seventeen, after serving several terms in reform school, he left Harlem for Greenwich Village. He went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Howard University and attended law school. He also wrote a book called The Children of Ham in 1976. Manchild in the Promised Land evolved from an article he published in Dissent magazine during his first year at college. He died in 2002 at the age of 64. Nathan McCall, author of Makes Me Wanna Holler, has worked as a journalist for The Washington Post. Currently, he teaches in the African American Studies Department at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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EAN: 9781451631579

UPC: 9781451631579

ISBN: 9781451631579

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Book Title: Manchild in the Promised Land

Number of Pages: 416 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Touchstone

Item Height: 1 in

Publication Year: 2011

Topic: Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Psychopathology / Addiction, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Genre: Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

Item Weight: 11.5 Oz

Item Length: 8.4 in

Author: Claude Brown

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback