Bibliograph

The short and tragic life of Robert Peace, a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League, Jeff Hobbs

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The short and tragic life of Robert Peace, a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League, Jeff Hobbs

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The short and tragic life of Robert Peace

Oclc number

1644807

Responsibility statement

Jeff Hobbs

Sub title

a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League

Summary

"Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto known as "Illtown." His unwed mother worked long hours in a kitchen. His charasmatic father was later convicted of a double murder. Peace's intellectual brilliance and hard-won determination earned him a full scholarship to Yale University. Upon graduation from Yale, he went home to teach at the Catholic high school he'd attended, slid into the drug trade, and was brutally murdered at age thirty. What does the haunting, untimely death of of one man mean? Robert Peace's life doesn't reduce to easy sociological constructions. Through Hobbs's relentless research and remarkable writing, we learn the cost of living between the world Peace was born into and the one his potential allowed him to enter"--Provided by the publisher

Target audience

adult

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