num_pages: 298
description: Over the last 20 years Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America's most visible--and quotable--public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books or in countless newspapers television and radio appearances or on stages podiums and pulpits across the world Dyson has spun an enchanting web of words that has caught the attention of the masses and elites alike. He has weighed in on a myriad array of topics - from faith to fatherhood and from race to sex as well as sports manhood gender music leadership politics language love justice literature suffering death hope relationships and much much more.Can You Hear Me Now? offers a sampling of Dyson's sharp wit profound thought and edifying eloquence on the enduring problems of humanity from love to justice and the latest topics of the day including race and the presidency. It is both revealing and relevant and at once thoughtful provoking and uplifting. Whether he is writing about Jay-Z or Barack Obama addressing racial catastrophes or opportunities or speaking about religion or the felicities of King's rhetoric Dyson's intellect shines with insight and inspiration.Can You Hear Me Now? captures Dyson's incredible facility with words and his prodigious intelligence at a time when he has gained greater fame as a public intellectual university professor best-selling author and most recently as one of the first prominent blacks to endorse President Barack Obama. The time is ripe for his wit wisdom and worldview and this book is Dyson's most accessible compendium of thinking on a broad range of topics that haunt and shape the nation.
language: English
title: Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson
publisher: Basic Civitas Books