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9781617116223 | 4th edition (Slack Inc, December 1, 2015), cover price $79.95
Product Description: "A novel as significant as it is engrossing." âBooklist, starred reviewGrant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories...read more
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9781932841916 | Agate Pub Inc, October 13, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "A novel as significant as it is engrossing.
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9781932841640 | Agate Pub Inc, May 8, 2012, cover price $16.00
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9780071764292 | 2 edition (McGraw-Hill, September 6, 2011), cover price $22.00
Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper columns, along with select longer pieces. The book is arranged chronologically under three broad subject headings: ÂWaiting for Someday to Come,â about children and family; ÂWhite Men Canât Jump (and Other Stupid Myths),â about race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and other fault lines of American culture; and ÂForward from this Moment,â about life after the September 11 attacks, spirituality, American identity, and Britney Spears.Pitts has a readership in the multi-millions across the country, and his columns generate an average of 2500 email responses per week. His enthusiastic fans are certain to embrace this collection of the best of his newspaper and magazine work, published to coincide with the release of his first novel, Before I Forget. Forward from this Moment is an essential collection from one of Americaâs most important voices.
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9781932841503, titled "Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008" | Agate Pub Inc, August 1, 2009, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards.
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9781932841329 | Original edition (Agate Pub Inc, August 1, 2009), cover price $17.00
Product Description: This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood â and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration â gives author Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons...read more
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9781932841435 | Agate Pub Inc, March 1, 2009, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood â and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration â gives author Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons.
Product Description: The fatherless black family is a problem that grows to bigger proportions every year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in their homes. As this dire pattern grows worse, what can men do who hope to break it, when there are so few models and so little guidance in their own homes and communities? Where can they learn to Âbecome Dad?â When Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist PittsÂwho himself grew up with an abusive father whose absences came as a reliefÂinterviewed dozens of men across the country, he found both discouragement and hope, as well as deep insights into his own roles as son and father...read more
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9781563525018 | Taylor Pub, May 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A respected African-American journalist examines the stereotype of the fatherless black family in America, examining the causes and consequences of the phenomenon and sharing advice on how to break this historic pattern to promote the role of fatherhood among African-American men.
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9781932841176 | Agate Pub Inc, June 1, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The fatherless black family is a problem that grows to bigger proportions every year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in their homes.
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9781421969091 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2006, cover price $94.99 | About this edition: Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing.
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9780840381583 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, September 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Book by Pitts
Product Description: Book by Pitts, Leonard, Jr.
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9780895310767 | Sharon Pubns, June 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Book by Pitts, Leonard, Jr.
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9780895310378 | Sharon Pubns, December 1, 1983, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Book by
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