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Price M. Cobbs, M.D., coauthor, with William H. Grier, of the explosive bestseller Black Rage -- hailed by the New York Times as one of the most important books on [blacks] in modern literature -- reflects on his extraordinary career and personal history in MY AMERICAN LIFE Medical professional, corporate consultant, freedom fighter, family man -- Dr. Cobbs is diversity defined. A black pioneer in the field of psychiatry who came of age in the Civil Rights era, Dr. Cobbs has devoted his life to the study of race and gender. With My American Life, his first memoir, Dr. Cobbs picks up where Black Rage left off by presenting a poignant account of his own journey toward Entitlement -- the essential vision of the American dream. In my lifetime, he writes, I've seen African Americans struggle beyond the legacy of slavery and rage to take their place as equal citizens entitled to the same opportunities and responsibilities as everyone else. This fundamental legitimacy of laying claim to one's needs is at the heart of My American Life. More than just a memoir, it is an engaging chronicle of the black experience and a guidebook for self-empowerment.

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With the publication of the classic Black Rage a generation ago, Dr. Price Cobbs became one of the nation's preeminent psychiatrists. While Dr. Cobbs put many black Americans in touch with their rage, we knew little about his personal demons until now. In the same carefully wrought prose that attended his magnum opus, the doctor dissects his odyssey, probing the facts of his life as though he was the patient. His examined life is not only worth living, it's worth telling. <p> -- Herb Boyd, author of We Shall Overcome and Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson

A nuanced portrait of mid-twentieth-century racial consciousness, one that insists on claiming 'entitlement' (a sense of belonging and worth) as proper rechanneling of rage. <p> -- Publishers Weekly

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