{"product_id":"makes-me-wanna-holler-isbn-9780679740704","title":"Makes Me Wanna Holler","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER •\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. \u003ci\u003eMakes Me Wanna Holler\u003c\/i\u003e became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e With a new afterword by the author\u003c\/b\u003e\"Not since Claude Brown's \u003ci\u003eManchild in the Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e has there been such an honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America....A compelling depiction of the toll that racism and misguided notions of manhood have taken in the life of one black man–and, by implication, many others.\"–\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003eNathan McCall grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. He studied journalism at Norfolk State University after serving three years in prison, and went on to report for the \u003ci\u003eVirginian Pilot-Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStar\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e before joining \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e in 1989. He is the author of a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMakes Me Wanna Holler\u003c\/i\u003e; an essay collection, \u003ci\u003eWhat’s Going On\u003c\/i\u003e; and a novel, \u003ci\u003eThem\u003c\/i\u003e. McCall is currently is a senior lecturer in African American Studies at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.National Bestseller","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304838156517,"sku":"NP9780679740704","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679740704.jpg?v=1767732153","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/makes-me-wanna-holler-isbn-9780679740704","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}