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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 233 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
256 pages
Description
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray wasin a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately...
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
4 CDs (241 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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