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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Harpercollins
Publication date
June 1, 1966
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780060132811
ISBN-10
0060132817
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Out of Print
Original list price
$9.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A noted author-photographer recounts his life and the bitter struggle he has faced since he was 16 against poverty and racial prejudice
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Gordon Parks (1912â2006)âthe groundbreaking photographer, writer, composer, activist, and filmmakerâwas only sixteen in 1928 when he moved from Kansas to St. Paul, Minnesota, after his mother's death. There, homeless and hungry, he began his fight to survive, to educate himself, and to fulfill his potential dream.
This compelling autobiography, first published in 1966, now back in print by popular demand and with a new foreword by Wing Young Huie, tells how Parks managed to escape the poverty and bigotry around him and to launch his distinguished career by choosing the weapons given him by "a mother who placed love, dignity, and hard work over hatred." Parks, the first African American to work at Life magazine and the first to write, direct, and score a Hollywood film, told an interviewer in 1999, "I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."
Praise for A Choice of Weapons
"A perceptive narrative of one man's struggle to realize the values (defined as democratic and especially American) he has been taught to respect." âNew York Times Book Review
"A lean, well-written memoir."âTime
This compelling autobiography, first published in 1966, now back in print by popular demand and with a new foreword by Wing Young Huie, tells how Parks managed to escape the poverty and bigotry around him and to launch his distinguished career by choosing the weapons given him by "a mother who placed love, dignity, and hard work over hatred." Parks, the first African American to work at Life magazine and the first to write, direct, and score a Hollywood film, told an interviewer in 1999, "I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."
Praise for A Choice of Weapons
"A perceptive narrative of one man's struggle to realize the values (defined as democratic and especially American) he has been taught to respect." âNew York Times Book Review
"A lean, well-written memoir."âTime
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Hardcover
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from Harpercollins (June 1, 1966)
9780060132811 | details & prices | List price $9.95
About: A noted author-photographer recounts his life and the bitter struggle he has faced since he was 16 against poverty and racial prejudice
About: A noted author-photographer recounts his life and the bitter struggle he has faced since he was 16 against poverty and racial prejudice
Paperback
Reprint edition from Minnesota Historical Society Pr (October 1, 1986)
9780873512022 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $14.95
About: The noted author/photographer recounts his life and the bitter struggle he has faced, since he was sixteen-years-old, against poverty and racial prejudice
About: The noted author/photographer recounts his life and the bitter struggle he has faced, since he was sixteen-years-old, against poverty and racial prejudice
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