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People get ready for another Cosby book.(between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry)("Come on, People!: On the Path From Victims to Victors" by Bill Cosby)(Book review)
"Come on, people!" That's what Bill Cosby (left) has been saying to the black community more loudly than usual in the past few years--from his notorious NAACP speech to his "call-out" sessions in local communities. And now he'll be saying it on the printed page in his forthcoming book, scheduled as a fall 2007 release and titled accordingly, Come on, People] On the Path From Victims to Victors.
Published by Christian book house Thomas Nelson (Cosby's 1986 New York Times No. 1 best-seller Fatherhood was published by Doubleday), the new book is cowritten with Alvin F. Poussaint (right), professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, civil rights figure and coauthor of Raising Black Children (Plume, 1992) and Lay My Burden Down (Beacon Press, 2002). The book is being promoted as a message of hope and empowerment that is both challenging and inspirational.
According to the publisher's description, Come on, People! is Cosby's and Poussaint's vision for "strengthening America by addressing the crisis of people frozen in feelings of low self-esteem, abandonment, anger, fearfulness, sadness, and feelings of being used, undefended, and ...
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