All God's Children The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence

Name: All God's Children The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
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ISBN: 9780307280336

ISBN-10: 0307280330

ISBN-13: 9780307280336

Edition: N/A

Authors: Fox Butterfield

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A timely reissue of Fox Butterfield’s masterpiece,All God’s Children, a searing examination of the caustic cumulative effect of racism and violence over 5 generations of black Americans. Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen led to the passage of the first law in the nation allowing teenagers to be tried as adults. Butterfield traces the Bosket family back to their days as South Carolina slaves and documents how Willie is the culmination of generations of neglect, cruelty, discrimination and brutality directed at black Americans. From the terrifying scourge of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English