Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America - Nathan McCall Audiobook

Written by Nathan McCall
Read by Leon Nixon
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 03-02-26

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery.

In this book, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. Includes the 2016 afterword by the author.

“Not since Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America….A compelling depiction of the toll that racism and misguided notions of manhood have taken in the life of one black man–and, by implication, many others.”–The San Francisco Chronicle