| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780060976972 | | Publisher: 101 Productions | | Publish Date: 10/1/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 30004651 | | Item#: R2N3KD | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.5L x 0.75T |
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| | | The New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Savage Inequalities reveals the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx--the poorest congressional district in the nation. "(Kozol) has produced perhaps his most affecting book . . . this volume has the tone and power of elegy".--Los Angeles Times.
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A chilling report from Kozol on the status of the "poorest of the poor" children, focusing on New York City's South Bronx.
| PraiseThreepenny Review
"It's not just that the schools are no good. A lot of the kids have lead poisoning; they're brain-damaged; it's irreversible. Kozol has the bleak, middle-aged tones of someone who's not only seen injustice for too long but has heard too many promises of reform." - Daniel Wolff Summer 1996Publisher's catalogue
"Very powerful--it may turn out to be one of THE books of our time....This is a remarkable book; I encourage all Americans to buy it and read it." - Marian Wright Edelman |
| Author Bio| Jonathan Kozol | | The son of a social worker and a neuropsychiatrist, Jonathan Kozol was educated at Harvard and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Magdalen College, Oxford. After his studies at Oxford, Kozol lived in Paris, in the same hotel as William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and wrote a novel. He returned to the U.S. in 1963, and the following year became a teacher in the Boston public school system. After being fired for "curriculum deviation", Kozol worked in one of Boston's wealthy suburbs. His experiences as a teacher have proven to be the wellspring for virtually all of Kozol's books, starting with "Death at an Early Age", which won a 1968 National Book Award and which made him famous. He has reported for many years on social issues such as homelessness and the neglect of poor children in the nation's schools as well as in society at large, and his books have won numerous awards and stimulated much debate. |
| Awards |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1996) |  | won, Nonfiction | | |
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