Manchild in the Promised Land

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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: I read this book a little while before Claude Brown passed away. I loved this book. I also read his book, Children of the Ham, and I found this book in my closet. Truly a lost treasure. I loved this book. It was so real. It's like I could see him living his life just the way he described it. I suggest everybody- no matter whether you're black, white, purple, green -read this book. Youwill not be disappointed. Trust me.

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Summary: A must read for the young and the old
Review: I read this book when I was 14 and again when I was 17 when I had my first boyfriend who was going down the same road as Sonny. He was selling drugs and was getting caught up in the life of crime. I urged him to read it and he did. He agreed that it was a great book. Unfortunately, he missed the point and made a hero out of Sonny. But I still recommend this book to young boys. I've been trying to find a copy for years for my young nephew. Adults its our duty to give a copy to all the youths that we know.

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Summary: An Outstanding Autobiography
Review: I read this book years ago and it remains one of the very best I've ever come across. In 1987 I recommended this book to my boyfriend at the time and it turned him into a booklover. Strongly recommended for young, African-American males who're trying to find their way.

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Summary: Great Book. I enjoyed it from start to finish!!
Review: I recommend this book for everyone. The book captures the reader from the first page. It's an adventure

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Summary: a graphic account of trials and tribulations and success
Review: i was mesmerized from the first page and completly caught up in the tragedy, truimph and sadness of this story. it had the same effect on me as it did when i first read it 25 years ago.

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Summary: Man Stands Where Manchild Ran
Review: In Claude Brown's, "Manchild in the Promised Land", the author regales the reader with a starkly realistic portrayal of Harlem. The autobiography, written in narrative form, walks the reader through the childhood and early manhood of Sonny, Claude Brown. The writer pulls no punches as he hits the page with an intense anger of the circumstances that created the culture of Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, and to great extent contribute to the same chaos today. Written in 1965, "Manchild in the Promised Land" could be referred to as a streetwise primer. It's clear, lucid prose gives unflinching detail to the black man's experience living in the ghetto. Brown recalls his childhood with pleasure and pride, a childhood defined by violence, crime and drug addiction. This honest pride is evidenced in many reverse values from "traditional" society, of those living outside the ghetto. Brown shows how these opposite values come about naturally, giving the living conditions, and how they become survival techniques that make sense. In the 1950s, no one actually lived in Harlem, they survived or died, according to Brown's account. Touted as the story of one who made it out of Harlem successfully, Claude Brown's "Manchild in the Promised Land" is the story of Sonny, a man who stands where a manchild ran.

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Summary: Inspiring.
Review: Manchild in a Promised Land is one of those books that really makes you think about it even while you're not reading it. And when you are reading it, you are so completely enthralled within it, just waiting to see what is going to happen next in Sonny's life, that you feel like you are being carried away to another time and place. You feel like you are looking at life in Harlem through Sonny's eyes.

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Summary: I love this book:
Review: Plain and simple... this is one of the best books I've ever read... This book reminds me of Down these means streets and the coldest winter ever... See This book talks about life on the streets from an African American... The Coldest Winter Ever talks about life on the streets from an African American Females perspective, and Down these mean Streets, talks about life on the streets from a Hispanic's perspective... Thats how they are all connected... Anyways... I couldn't keep my face out of this book... I am so inlove with this book. I recommend it to anyone... This book is bascially about the drug-fusion era... When drugs was first puton the streets. what it did, and the results...

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Summary: Possibly the Greatest book I've ever read
Review: Reading Man Child in the Promised land is inspiring. It is a story about hopelessness, and struggle. It is a story where a man who shouldn't go anywhere but to jail, or a one way road to hell finds his way out of Harlem, and makes to a law school. The book explains everything in detail though, it is sensed that Mr. Brown doesn't really regret what he did because it got him where it did, and as such is an inspiration for other black boys in the ghetto, knowing that they can amount to something better.

This is one of the few stories that brought me to tears for reasons other then sadness.

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Summary: IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Review: SONNY GIVES IN FULL DETAIL HOW IT IS TO LIVE IN THE STREETS OF HARLEM. HE TELLS HOW HE SURVIVES FROM THE GHETTO LIFE AND HOW HE AS A YOUNG ADULT CHOSE TO GO DOWN A PATH TO HAVE A BETTER FUTURE THEN BE IN JAIL OR DEAD.