Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir

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ReadHowYouWant.com, Jan 19, 2011 - 396 pages
New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America's most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West's penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades. Yet, as he points out in this new memoir, I've never taken ...
 

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Contents

ON THE MOVE
3
JANUARY 1 1961
12
MY CHANGE
28
THE BRIDGE
36
CURVE BALLS
42
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
53
A PHILOSOPHER WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN AND MALCOLM X
64
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ANDOR
102
MESSINWITH THEWRONG BROTHER
291
WOMB TO TOMB
302
DEATHTAXESAND LOVE
314
TEACHABLE MOMENTS
320
YOU ARE LOVED
332
GRATITUDE
343
OUR COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT
355
FRONTCOVER FLAP
363

DAVID HUME AND ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER IN
109
THE MOST PASSIONATE LOVE
283
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Brother West
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Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud : a Memoir
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About the author (2011)

Professor, writer, and civil rights activist Cornel West was born on June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 with an M.A. and later taught African-American studies there. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Haverford College, and Princeton University, the latter as professor of religion and director of African-American studies. West earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980. He has written more than twenty books, including Race Matters and Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America.

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TitleBrother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir
AuthorCornel West
Editionlarge print
PublisherReadHowYouWant.com, 2011
ISBN1458730026, 9781458730022
Length396 pages
  
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