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Barack like me : the chocolate-covered truth / David Alan Grier with Alan Eisenstock.
LIBRA Rare PN2287.G695 A3 2009 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grier, David Alan, 1956 June 30-
- Eisenstock, Alan, author.
- Series:
- Touchstone book
- A Touchstone book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grier, David Alan, 1956 June 30-.
- Grier, David Alan.
- Grier, David Alan, 1956 June 30---Political and social views.
- African American comedians--Biography.
- African American comedians.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Political and social views.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Social conditions.
- African Americans--Race identity--Political aspects.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
- Race relations--Political aspects.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 239 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by Simon & Schuster, 2009.
- Contents:
- Secretary of mirth
- Beige is the new black
- Royalty and holiness
- The envelope, please
- Public therapy
- Death of the angry black man
- House burning down
- Purple haze
- High school
- The secret to marriage
- Purple crush
- Hated it!
- The moment
- The seventy-two-hour rule
- DWTS diary
- "This is gonna end badly."
- Notes:
- "First Touchstone hardcover edition October 2009."
- "Designed by Joy O'Meara."
- "Jacket Design by Jennifer Heuer."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781439154922
- 1439154929
- OCLC:
- 310397628
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