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"Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it," declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America's most visible, inspirational, and quotable public intellectuals, Dyson has weighed in on a vast array of issues. In his books and newspaper articles, over television and radio waves, and from podiums to pulpits, Dyson has brought awareness and insight to questions of culture, race, gender, and politics. Now, twenty years into his illustrious career, Michael Eric Dyson offers his fans and admirers a compendium of new and classic writing.

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Civitas Books
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12 May 2009
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President Barack Obama
"Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison. He is an outstanding scholar and an outstanding author."

Vanity Fair
"One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today."

Jay Z
"Michael Eric Dyson . . . is a world-class scholar and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have."

Steven Nadler, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin
"If any one person is continuing W. E. B. Du Bois's idea of the engaged public intellectual on African-American issues, it's Michael Eric Dyson."

Naomi Wolff
"The ideal public intellectual for our time: translator, boundary-breaker, and healer of a war torn culture.

The Boston Phoenix
"The preeminent black intellectual."

Lawrence Bobo, the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University
"Few have carried on the legacy of Du Bois's public intellectualism as well, or with as much verve . . . as Professor Michael Eric Dyson."

The Philadelphia Weekly
"Michael Eric Dyson is reshaping what it means to be a public intellectual by becoming the most visible black academic of his time."

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Michael Eric Dyson has been named by Ebony as one of the one hundred most influential black Americans and is the author of fourteen other books. He is University Professor at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, D.C. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XJHKC2Z
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Civitas Books; 1st edition (12 May 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2182 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 319 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0465019676

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Michael Eric Dyson is an award winning author, a widely celebrated Georgetown University professor, a prominent public intellectual and a noted political analyst. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he is also an ordained Baptist minister. Dyson is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner (Why I Love Black Women, and Is Bill Cosby Right?), and the winner of the American Book Award for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. His book The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America was a Kirkus Prize finalist. Dyson has written 19 books, and edited another one, over his nearly 25-year publishing career. He is also a highly sought after public speaker who is known to excite both secular and sacred audiences. Follow him on Twitter @michaeledyson and on his official Facebook page (facebook.com/michaelericdyson)

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B. Reeves

Very Insightful and educational with important historical prospectives

Reviewed in the United States on 11 December 2011

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This book pick apart the attitudes and character of what people think and feel about what is going on in American. It provides a historic account of the African American culture. Some may be offended how Dr. Dyson's accounts of the African American's viewpoints are regarding race. Dr. Dyson is a highly intelligent lecturer and writer who don't mind sharing his opinions in an eloquent manner. He has an effective fashion how he provides the factual background on arriving to his respective viewpoints. Even if you don't agree with some of Dr. Dyson's positions, it at the very least challenges you to take a second look or think about some of your own true feelings. He has really open my eyes on many areas like the Hip Hop culture. I have always tried to be objective and open-minded but never view hip hop in a positive manner. My views on hip-hop industry prior to reading his book considered the music to be more commercial with little meaning. His book is a step-by-step of Black History and delivered well deserving praise to those figures in Politics, Civil Rights and the Entertainment Industrial some of whom sacrifice greatly to open door for others and well as making this country better. Dr. Dyson is a dynamic in many ways and all of his books tends to bring enlightenment that makes you rethink your position on the subject at hand.

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Great voice for American Society

Reviewed in the United States on 21 September 2010

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This is a great book. Michael Eric Dyson has extremely refined analytical skills that go beyond typical classifications to go to the heart of what justice is all about. "Justice does not depend on feeling to do the right thing. It depends on right action and sound thinking about the most helpful route to the best outcome." He is coming from a Christian point of view (which I am not) but there are parts of this book that would have value to a wide audience.

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M. Wooten

Brilliant pearls of wit and humor

Reviewed in the United States on 17 September 2016

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I found myself highlighting almost entire pages. Dr. Dyson delivers brilliant insight on a deeply moving rhetorical style. Highly intellectual but also relatable. Everyone should read this book.

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cpete

Love it...

Reviewed in the United States on 26 August 2018

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Should be required reading on all educational levels

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njf

michael eric dyson is one of the best truth tellers of present time

Reviewed in the United States on 12 August 2017

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michael eric dyson is one of the best truth tellers of present time. too bad he can't replace current president!

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