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

Butterfield, Fox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394582861 ISBN 13: 9780394582863

Publisher: Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

From the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea comes the poignant story of how the tradition of white Southern violence and racism has long affected and still haunts one black family. Butterfield follows the Bosket family of Edgefield County, South Carolina, from the days of slavery to the present. Photos.

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Review:

Willie Bosket was charming, magnetic, and brilliant. He was also the most cold-blooded criminal the New York State penal system had ever seen. By the time he was in his teens, he had committed over two hundred armed robberies and twenty-five stabbings. Fox Butterfield examines the heritage of violence that followed Bosket's family from their days in slavery in South Carolina to the present.

About the Author:

Fox Butterfield is the author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea, which won the National Book Award. He was a mamember of the New York Times reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its publication of the Pentagon Papers, and has served as a correspondant for the newspaper in Boston, Washington, DC, New York, South Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, and China--where he opened the Beijing bureau in 1979. He is currently a national correspondant for the Times, writing about crime and violence. He lives near Boston with his family.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0394582861
• ISBN 13: 9780394582863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 389