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The Message Audio CD – Unabridged 2024 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Unabridged
- ISBN
- 9780593916414
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Message
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Discrimination & Race Relations, General, American Government / Executive Branch, Essays
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593916417
ISBN-13
9780593916414
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25066527515
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Discrimination & Race Relations, General, American Government / Executive Branch, Essays
Book Title
Message
Language
English
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 In.
Item Length
5.9 In.
Item Width
5.1 In.
Item Weight
5.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Reviews
" The Message charts Coates's reentry as a public intellectual. . . . The rolling, elegiac cadences of much of his earlier work have yielded to a fury that's harder edged. But a sense of shock also seems to have elicited in Coates a sense of possibility. . . . He is using his position of prominence and moral authority to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians." -- The New York Times Book Review "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose, so naming his latest collection The Message is nothing if not on-brand. But what's the actual message? Consisting of three pieces of nonfiction, the book is part memoir, part travelogue, and part writing primer. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race." --Associated Press " The Message marks Coates's first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, and it arrives at a critical flashpoint in our increasingly globalized society." -- Harper's Bazaar "An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate--and more honest--future . . . At once a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself, the book is an urgent reminder that 'politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.'" -- Oprah Daily "Ever since his Baldwin-inflected Between the World and Me, Coates has been known for his incisive (and sometimes uncomfortable) cultural and political commentary. Here he journeys from West Africa to the American South to Palestine to examine how the stories we tell can fail us, and to argue that only the truth can bring justice." -- The Boston Globe "With his signature incisiveness, Coates interrogates the intersections of race, power, and identity while blending historical insight and personal reflection. Through three essays, Coates presents a global perspective that challenges the status quo and dares us to envision a more just future." -- SheReads "With the game-changing success of his essay/memoir Between the World and Me, anything [Coates] writes will immediately command attention. Here he grapples with the power and danger of storytelling, the too easy way of shaping and softening reality." -- Parade "Brilliant and timely." -- Booklist , starred review "A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review " Searching and restless, The Message is filled with startling revelations that show a writer grappling with how his work fits into history and the present moment. These masterful essays will leave readers convinced that Coates is up to the task." -- BookPage, starred review "This is an incendiary shot fired over the bow of America's mainstream journalistic establishment." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, " The Message charts Coates's re-entry as a public intellectual . . . The rolling, elegiac cadences of much of his earlier work have yielded to a fury that's harder edged. But a sense of shock also seems to have elicited in Coates a sense of possibility . . . [Coates] is using his position of prominence and moral authority to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians." -- The New York Times Book Review "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose, so naming his latest collection The Message is nothing if not on-brand. But what's the actual message? Consisting of three pieces of non-fiction, the book is part memoir, part travelogue, and part writing primer . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race." -- Associated Press "The Message marks Coates' first non-fiction book in nearly a decade, and it arrives at a critical flashpoint in our increasingly globalized society." -- Harper's Bazaar "An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate--and more honest--future . . . At once a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself, the book is an urgent reminder that 'politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.'" -- Oprah Daily "Ever since his Baldwin-inflected Between the World and Me, Coates has been known for his incisive (and sometimes uncomfortable) cultural and political commentary. Here he journeys from West Africa to the American South to Palestine to examine how the stories we tell can fail us, and to argue that only the truth can bring justice." -- The Boston Globe "With his signature incisiveness, Coates interrogates the intersections of race, power, and identity while blending historical insight and personal reflection. Through three essays, Coates presents a global perspective that challenges the status quo and dares us to envision a more just future." -- SheReads "With the game-changing success of his essay/memoir Between the World and Me, anything [Coates] writes will immediately command attention. Here he grapples with the power and danger of storytelling, the too easy way of shaping and softening reality." -- Parade "Brilliant and timely." -- Booklist , starred review "A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review " Searching and restless, The Message is filled with startling revelations that show a writer grappling with how his work fits into history and the present moment. These masterful essays will leave readers convinced that Coates is up to the task."-- BookPage, starred review "This is an incendiary shot fired over the bow of America's mainstream journalistic establishment." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, "An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate--and more honest--future . . . At once a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself, the book is an urgent reminder that 'politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.'" -- Oprah Daily "Ever since his Baldwin-inflected Between the World and Me, Coates has been known for his incisive (and sometimes uncomfortable) cultural and political commentary. Here he journeys from West Africa to the American South to Palestine to examine how the stories we tell can fail us, and to argue that only the truth can bring justice." -- The Boston Globe "Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates returns with a powerful critique on modern American society. With his signature incisiveness, Coates interrogates the intersections of race, power, and identity while blending historical insight and personal reflection. Through three essays, Coates presents a global perspective that challenges the status quo and dares us to envision a more just future." -- SheReads "With the game-changing success of his essay/memoir Between the World and Me, anything [Ta-Nehisi] writes will immediately command attention. Here he grapples with the power and danger of storytelling, the too easy way of shaping and softening reality. Coates travels to Africa, to South Carolina and--in the longest piece--Palestine to observe how rarely life as it is lived fits into the stories we want to tell ourselves." -- Parade "Coates presents three blazing essays on race, moral complicity, and a storyteller's responsibility to the truth. . . . Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely." -- Booklist , starred review "Award-winning journalist and MacArthur Fellow Coates probes the narratives that shape our perception of the world through his reports on three journeys: to Dakar, Senegal . . . Chapin, South Carolina, . . . and to Israel and Palestine . . . Interweaving autobiography and reportage, Coates examines race, his identity as a Black American, and his role as a public intellectual . . . A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review, "An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate--and more honest--future . . . At once a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself, the book is an urgent reminder that 'politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.' " -- Oprah Daily "Ever since his Baldwin-inflected Between the World and Me, Coates has been known for his incisive (and sometimes uncomfortable) cultural and political commentary. Here he journeys from West Africa to the American South to Palestine to examine how the stories we tell can fail us, and to argue that only the truth can bring justice." -- The Boston Globe "Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates returns with a powerful critique on modern American society. With his signature incisiveness, Coates interrogates the intersections of race, power, and identity while blending historical insight and personal reflection. Through three essays, Coates presents a global perspective that challenges the status quo and dares us to envision a more just future." -- SheReads "With the game-changing success of his essay/memoir Between the World and Me, anything [Coates] writes will immediately command attention. Here he grapples with the power and danger of storytelling, the too easy way of shaping and softening reality. Coates travels to Africa, to South Carolina, and--in the longest piece--Palestine to observe how rarely life as it is lived fits into the stories we want to tell ourselves." -- Parade "Coates presents three blazing essays on race, moral complicity, and a storyteller's responsibility to the truth. . . . Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely." -- Booklist , starred review "Award-winning journalist and MacArthur Fellow Coates probes the narratives that shape our perception of the world through his reports on three journeys: to Dakar, Senegal . . . Chapin, South Carolina, . . . and to Israel and Palestine . . . Interweaving autobiography and reportage, Coates examines race, his identity as a Black American, and his role as a public intellectual . . . A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review, Praise for Ta-Nehisi Coates "[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political or racial ideology, humane in his judgments, respectful of facts, acutely aware of the difference between what is knowable and what is not." -- The New Yorker "Anyone who wants to know who we are--and where we are now--must sit with [Coates] for a good while." -- The New York Times Book Review "Coates is frequently lauded as one of America's most important writers on the subject of race today, but this in fact undersells him: Coates is one of America's most important writers on the subject of America today." -- Slate "[Coates's] prose style and literary prowess are hip-hop sharpened: he believes in the art of dexterous reference, potent, lyrical critique and political storytelling. . . . As the best critics do, Coates draws us into conversation, into argument, rather than closing off discourse with canned proclamations or static resolutions." -- The Baltimore Sun
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
306.4
Edition Description
Unabridged edition
Synopsis
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me travels the world to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities. Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories-our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking-expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist-and named for Nubian pharaoh-Coates had never set foot on the African continent until finally he traveled to the coast of the dark ocean that carried the enslaved to a new world. He roams the "steampunk" city of "old traditions and new machinery," meeting with strangers-fabric sellers and street hustlers-and dining with Francophone writers who quiz him on African American politics. But everywhere he goes he feels as if he's in two places at once- a modern city in Senegal and a mythic kingdom in his mind, the pan-African homeland he was raised to believe was the origin and destiny for all black people. Eventually he travels to the slave castles off the coast-and his own reckoning with the legacy of the Afrocentric dream. In Palestine, the longest of the essays, he discovers the devastating gap between the stories we tell ourselves and the vivid reality on the ground. He travels the singular landscape and meets with activists and dissidents, Israelis and Palestinians--the old, who remember their dispossession, and the young who dream of revolution. He travels into Jerusalem where he is told a story of this contested land that justifies its conquest; he travels to the West Bank to see the reality that the myth is meant to hide, one that parallels his own ancestral memories of the segregationist south. It is the hidden story that draws him in and profoundly changes him--and makes the war that would soon come all the more devastating. The final essay takes place back in the USA-in Columbia, South Carolina, where Coates visits a school district in the process of banning one of his books. He enters the world of the teacher whose job is threatened and her community of mostly white supporters who were transformed and even radicalized by the "racial reckoning" of 2020. But he also explores the deeper myths and stories of that city-a capital of the confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over the city's public squares. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers eloquently expresses the need to interrogate our myths and liberate our truths., #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities. "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race."--Associated Press "Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely."-- Booklist (starred review) Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories--our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking--expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city--a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world--and our own souls--and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths., #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities. "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race."--Associated Press "Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely."-- Booklist (starred review) A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Vanity Fair Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories--our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking--expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city--a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world--and our own souls--and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.
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