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Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir - Clarence B. Jones - Clarence B. Jones


Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir - Clarence B. Jones
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Last of the Lions is two histories woven into one remarkable story.
History never felt so present, a philosophy so urgent..
Last of the Lions explores a path to true equality laid out by perhaps the only American alive with the personal experience, political context, and social cachet to tackle the issue head-on.
Ferguson could have happened half a century ago, but it happened half a decade ago.
Jones presents a guide to the ever-pressing--and even after 400 years, the still-unfinished--business in our country: Erasing the color line.
Last of the Lions offers a vibrant perspective on human nature and light and dark sides of American values.
During the seven crucial decades that defined today\'s American Experience, Jones was in the thick of it.
But this book is far from a treatise on race
Jones witnessed (and participated in) nearly every one of the most important political and social movements from the 1950s until today.
Jones suffered the iniquities, fought the battles, and, unlike so many, lived to see both the fruits of his labor and its failings.
His story is the connective tissue that clarifies our past, explains our present, and points the way to the future.
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Jones is the bridge from one America to another--spanning poverty and prosperity, injustice and acceptance, Harlem and Wall Street, even the militant underpinnings of the Black Nation of Islam and the Gandhian philosophy of Dr.
Between the time Jones was born and today, America\'s relationship with her black citizenry has experienced a sea change.
But it\'s also the coming-of-age story of this country, with the kind of intimate observations and thought-provoking perspective that unfurl in classics like Soul on Ice, On the Road, and The Feminine Mystique.
And all the unforgettable moments in between--his Ivy League years, his unprecedented dual role as simultaneous military draftee and protester, his work as an entertainment lawyer, financial/media entrepreneur, and more. elected as President, back-to-back, the first African American to hold the office and a former game show host who dog-whistled to white supremacists).
Jones, from his depression- and segregation-era upbringing at the hands of caring Irish Catholic nuns through our current era (when the U.
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It\'s a personal journey--the evocative life of Clarence B.
Last of the Lions is two histories woven into one remarkable story


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