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

ISBN: 0307280330

Author: Butterfield, Fox

Condition: New

A timely reissue of Fox Butterfields masterpiece, All Gods 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 of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction to the brutal streets of 1970s New York, this is an unforgettable examination of the painful roots of violence and racism in America.

• All Gods Children By Butterfield Fox