Harlem Bible: In The Beginning - Softcover

Reid, Grant Harper

9781976572838: Harlem Bible: In The Beginning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1976572835 ISBN 13: 9781976572838

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Harlem Bible---In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid

NAACP 2018 Mid-Manhattan Black History Month Founders Day & 2018 Readers Favorite Book Award-winning author Grant Harper Reid has writted his second book "Harlem Bible." Grant has taken a nod from the old master Lao Tzu, the keeper of the Imperial Archives who proclaimed to the world, "A Good Reckoner Needs No Tally." In the Harlem Bible, Reid demonstrates himself to be a good reckoner indeed. Reid's first book was considered to be a work of pure literary genius, full of humor that pushes the envelope.

Harlem Bibleis a delightfully amazing and exceedingly enjoyable book. Grant reminiscences his early years as an innocent young black child growing up in Harlem and the suburbs of New Jersey. We weave through the author's past with flashbacks and an assembly of timelines that are and chock full of fascinating bygone circumstances of yesteryear.

The impetus behind the Harlem Bible came from the author's angst as his beloved Harlem neighborhood became gentrified. With gentrification came newcomers who distorted and misrepresented the historical descriptions of his community. Grant took it personally when condescending intruders flooded onto his beloved streets and defined Harlem's glorious past to suit their one-sided cravings.

Reid watched as many authentic Harlemites passed away taking their tales with them to their hereafters. He chose to do something about it, and thus he wrote the Harlem Bible. Harlem Bible arranges the groundwork with corroborated verifiable information then discharges it with reflections for the benefit of the readers. Please don't misperceive the Harlem Bible with the usual pasteurized half-stepping Negro books with no basis in fact. If you want to understand the hidden black culture that most colored people will not admit to then this book is for you.

Harlem Bible is a look through Grant's life with his family, friends, associates, and adversaries. Grant gets bussed to an all-white public school in the Bronx and we follow him. While there he discovers for the first time what it is like to be a black boy when white students call him Nigger. We find out the authors reaction when he goes to a black summer camp and the "It" girl asks him for a dance. We learn of Reid's response at a Jewish day camp after he attempts to befriend the beautiful Jewish American Princess who rebuffs him and won't give him the time of day?

What happens to the young author when he sneaks into Jimi Hendrix's limousine without the proper authorization? Discover what happens when the author looks into the mirror and mistakenly concludes that, "he ain't got one scintilla of talent" himself. Laugh with, and at him he attempts and nosedives downward when he wants to become a black hippie. What happens when Grant visits the mixed-race Negro hillbillies called Jackson Whites and believed that they want to make him their primary dinner course?

The Harlem Bible journeys in a world full of jazz, rhythm & blues, soul music and rock & roll and celebrities. Take a breathtaking gallop into this world of upwardly mobile African-Americas, original uptown hang-outs, riots, romance, civil rights and the underworld as this innocent young man tries to acquire a fair and equal education. Oh, the gangsters, ministers, stars and a potpourri harebrained, zany characters. The book is filled with rare "Jimi Hendrix Play's Harlem" photographs.

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From the Author:

We shadow the author as he sponges all things black Americana. We root for him as the Harlem nightlife grabs molds, swallows and kicks him in his ass while forcing him into young adulthood.

Young Grant integrates two school systems. The author becomes one of the first black kids bussed from Harlem to a predominantly white public school. Grant then desegregated a second time becoming part of Teaneck's racially mixed 6th grade school experimentation. The integration occurs as the author's family experiences the "White Flight" in their suburban Teaneck neighborhood.

Book lovers will clamor for more as they read the author's inimitable black ordeals. He specifies his relations with his family, celebrities, hoodlums, ministers and a potpourri of notables. The bonus indulgence arrives whenever the Grant poetically romances and articulates his affection (and sometimes displeasure) for those that he interrelated with during the unfolding of his yesterday.

Grant's first book was described as venturing, "Into the beating heart of the Harlem Renaissance which taps into an important cultural movement." In Harlem Bible, the author aims his arrows with a book that's unequivocally alive.

The author weaves us through his distant past with flashbacks and timelines which are erected with enchanted and real historical references.Harlem Bible comes to life by fetching up writer's impeccable memories of yesteryear. It is the autobiographer's accurate map and a slice of Harlem'sglorious and authentic past.

The book follows the author in Harlem in a world full of upwardly mobile African-Americans during the 1950-60s. The author travels in a world surrounded by jazz, rock, rhythm & blues and sweet soul music. The readers roll with Grant at original uptown hang-outs, riots, romance, civil rights, the underworld and the innocence of a young black boy trying to get a fair and equal education.

From the Back Cover:

Grant Harper Reid grew up in Harlem with his family.As a pre-teen, he and his family moved to the suburbs of Teaneck, New Jersey.Throughout those formative years, the author often traveled back to Harlem to visit family members or engage in temporary summer employment.

Once Grant graduated from Bard College, he returned to his beloved Harlem. The authors continued his education with the National Academy of Television Arts &Sciences and Ossie Davis's Institute of New Cinema Artists.

Then Grant went to work professionally in the wonderful world of entertainment. He kicked off his career with a variety of functions for recording artists and their companies. Reid went on to earn a living servicing all departments while on location for motion picture, music video, and commercial enterprises.

Grant thrived while working up close and side by side with some of the most important people in the film industry. His many years of employ ensued in spite of having to work with some of the most, racist Caucasians and self-absorbed cowardlyNegroes this side of Hollywood, the Harlem River, and the Mason-Dixon Line.

It was by no means an unproblematic task for Reid to become proficient as a writer.While in third grade he was bussed from Harlem into an all-white school in the theKingsbridge section of the Bronx. The students in his classes were educationally advanced in English, and the officials ignored what deficits the ghetto children brought with them. It took Reid a lifetime to become theGrand-Prize Five Star award-winning author that he is today. The Barrymore-award that was bestowed upon him by the Fort Lee Film Commission for his years of outstanding motion picture research is one of the author's most prized honors.

Harlem Bible is an engaging and hilarious book that explores genuine Black History.

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