All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
A startling examination of an American heritage of violence - a legacy from the pre-Revolutionary white rural South to today's urban America - that helps answer the question of how America became so violent. The tradition is reflected in the experiences of one black family, the Boskets, from the days of slavery to the present.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Year
- 1996
- ISBN-13
- 9780380728626
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- American violenceRace and slavery legacyFamily history
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(1996)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1995)
Other awarded books from Fox Butterfield
- China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
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