Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (513 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156858993X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mary McCarthy said Essential reading for those who care about the future. Thoughtful, well researched, and sensitivity written stories about the unknown young people impacted by gun violence across America. Impactful because of the "Essential reading for those who care about the future" according to Mary McCarthy. Thoughtful, well researched, and sensitivity written stories about the unknown young people impacted by gun violence across America. Impactful because of the 2Essential reading for those who care about the future Mary McCarthy Thoughtful, well researched, and sensitivity written stories about the unknown young people impacted by gun violence across America. Impactful because of the 24 hour frame. Shocking that our policy makers can be so blatantly unresponsive, which makes the race undertone so much more obvious. It takes someone who immigrated here to rais. hour frame. Shocking that our policy makers can be so blatantly unresponsive, which makes the race undertone so much more obvious. It takes someone who immigrated here to rais. Essential reading for those who care about the future Mary McCarthy Thoughtful, well researched, and sensitivity written stories about the unknown young people impacted by gun violence across America. Impactful because of the 24 hour frame. Shocking that our policy makers can be so blatantly unresponsive, which makes the race undertone so much more obvious. It takes someone who immigrated here to rais. hour frame. Shocking that our policy makers can be so blatantly unresponsive, which makes the race undertone so much more obvious. It takes someone who immigrated here to rais. Andrew Butler said After starting to read this book I could not put. After starting to read this book I could not put it down and ended up pulling an all nighter and finished this book in a night. Was a startling look at how gun violence effects peoples everyday life.. A Cry for Lives Lost and for Policy Change Ruth W. Messinger brilliant and depressing book that makes gun violence in America the horror that it is and, in the process, tells us about individuals and families coping with lives that demand more from them than possibly makes sense in this country. weaves in facts and statistics that suggest how much policy change is needed for our less well off c
What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZEOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. WINNER OF THE 2017 J. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost.This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps
A UK-born Guardian columnist who lives in the U.S., Younge brings an outsider's perspective and turns it into one of the book's core strengths as he questions commonly held beliefs about gun violence. Instead, he holds true to his purpose of making these dead children far more than statistics, delivering a heart-buckling read that is all the more painful because it’s real. I wish Younge explored more solutions in his narrative so that I had something hopeful to hold on to at the end. Through interviews with most (though not all) of the victims' families, Younge pieces together a picture of each child as well as the events that led to their deaths. An Best Book of October 2016: Reading about the deaths of children is emotionally crushing, which is exactly why Younge is making us do it. The children come from different racial backgrounds, family structures, regions, and ages, making the method of their death
His most recent book is The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Gary Younge, an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Nation Institute, is an award-winning columnist for the Guardian and Nation and an acclaimed author. . Formerly the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor of public policy and social administration at Brooklyn College, CUNY, he has two honorary degrees from British universities. In 2009 he won the Briti