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Losing My Cool How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

Thomas Chatterton Williams

A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Into Williams's childhood home-a one-story ranch house-his father crammed more books than the local library could hold. "Pappy" used some of t...

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The Megyn Kelly Show

It was mentioned as the author's first book, partially based on his experiences growing up in a family with a strong emphasis on reading. It centered around his experiences with hip-hop culture during his youth.

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And it's a testament to my father's pretty extraordinary library. He accumulated about 15,000 books that filled every spare inch of our kind of small house in New Jersey growing up.

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It was mentioned as the author's first book, partially based on his experiences growing up in a family with a strong emphasis on reading. It centered around his experiences with hip-hop culture during his youth.

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And it's a testament to my father's pretty extraordinary library. He accumulated about 15,000 books that filled every spare inch of our kind of small house in New Jersey growing up.

Yeah. And it's a testament to my father's pretty extraordinary library. He accumulated about 15,000 books that filled every spare inch of our kind of small house in New Jersey growing up.

My first book was, you know, about what's the title? I love the title, but the hip hop losing my cool.

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