All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield

All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Fox Butterfield
Page: 432
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780307280336
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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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...

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