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A Personal History Of Violence In America
Beacon Press
April 1996
On Sale: April 9, 1996
192 pages
ISBN: 0807004235
EAN: 9780807004234
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes
Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. Canada relives a childhood in which violence stalked every street corner.
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