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Rage of a Privileged Class

Name: Rage of a Privileged Class
Author: Ellis Cose
ISBN: 9780060925949

by Ellis Cose

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Overview

A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community.

Synopsis

A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community.

New York Times Book Review

A disciplined, graceful exposition of a neglected aspect of the subject of race in America.

About the Author, Ellis Cose

Ellis Cose, author, contributing editor of Newsweek magazine, and former, chairman of the editorial board and editorial page editor of the New York Daily News, began his journalism career at the age of nineteen as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Cose has been a contributor to, and press critic of, Time magazine, president and chief executive officer of the Institute of Jouranlism Educaton, chief writer on management and workplace issues for USA Today, and a memeber of the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press. He is the author of The Rage of a Privileged Class, A Nation of Strangers, and The Press. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Lee Llambelis, an assistant district attorney.