Amazing Grace The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Name: Amazing Grace The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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ISBN: 9780060976972

ISBN-10: 0060976977

ISBN-13: 9780060976972

Edition: 1995

Authors: Jonathan Kozol

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The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. The book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDs, life-consuming fires and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place. A gently written work, Amazing Grace asks questions that are at once political and theological.…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/27/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Educator and author Jonathan Kozol was born in Boston. He graduated from Harvard University in 1958. Kozol has an concerns with topics such as illiteracy, children trying to learn in bad neighborhoods and homelessness. His books include Death at an Early Age, Illiterate American and Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America.