Synopsis
The Autobiography of Anthony "Doc" Hamilton. In his autobiography, “Doc” has penned an expository reflection, prominently based on his life journey – a path laced with joy, pain, heartbreak, and love. Readers of his earlier works “Shattered Lives” and “Chocolate” have waited, eagerly anticipating this next chapter to be added to this author’s body of work. “Doc” offers hope to that element of African-American society often overlooked and forgotten, the “voiceless ones” – hope that someone hears, sees, and will speak for them – speak to them.
About the Author
Anthony “Doc” Hamilton has emerged as one of the most sobering voices for this generation. Marrying personal life experiences with an illuminating passion, this author delivers razor-sharp urban insights, and propagates those social values that enable African-American culture to continue advancing in its perception and view of itself. A native of Dallas, Texas, who now calls Northern California his home, “Doc” has harnessed the power of a compelling voice. Once thought to have a learning disability, “Doc” spent most of his childhood having his passions and dreams suppressed beneath the cloud of the ridicule and mistreatment often suffered by children viewed as different or slow. Young “Doc” would see oppressive atrocities committed against him by family, the very people charged with nurturing his sense of self. The weapons used to beat back the ambitions of this future author, became the tools he would later use to strengthen his mind and tune his voice to the harmonic tone of the times. Illiterate until he was 26 years old, “Doc’s” inner voice, starved of expression, was crafted through a common sense approach to survival. The hunger to “get my words” as he once called it, evolved from a mere wish to read and write, but greater still an insatiable yearning to be heard. Unable to deny his call to be a great communicator, “Doc” once emphatically exclaimed, “I won’t read anyone’s book until I’m able to write my own!” That pledge gave birth to a quest for literacy, calling on the strength that enabled him to become a successful athlete, survive homelessness, and create a seemingly whole life. “Doc’s” quest for literacy would eternally be marked in time, and bring more satisfaction than he could have every imagined, culminating with his several authored works. In his autobiography, “Doc” has penned an expository reflection, prominently based on his life journey – a path laced with joy, pain, heartbreak, and love. Readers of his earlier works “Shattered Lives” and “Chocolate” have waited, eagerly anticipating this next chapter to be added to this author’s body of work. “Doc” offers hope to that element of African-American society often overlooked and forgotten, the “voiceless ones” – hope that someone hears, sees, and will speak for them – speak to them.
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