Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions. Her home was
happy and creative but also shadowed by debt and her father’s
alcoholism. When her father was killed by teenagers on the streets
of their public housing project, her family developed a deep and
dysfunctional reliance on the born-again Christian church to which
they belonged, and Tracy stopped attending school. Over the years,
in a bid to balm her grief and poverty, she journeyed through
multiple belief systems, from extreme religion to the occult and
paranormal, and eventually conspiracy theories. Amid this chaos, on
the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop, she discovered an old copy of
Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World, the book that taught her
how to, finally, think critically—and for herself. Eloquently
written and brimming with surprisingly sharp humor, Learning to
Think is a battle cry for imaginative freedom and taking charge of
one’s own education.
General
| Imprint: |
Liveright Publishing Corporation
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2024 |
| Authors: |
Tracy King
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-63149-873-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-63149-873-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781631498732 |
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