Manchild in the Promised Land

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Summary: Powerful, Explosive American Biography!
Review: The man knows how to write and tell his story with all the passion, spirit, and gusto that only the ghettos of Harlem can produce! I was touched beyond words while reading this book.

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Summary: A timeless classic
Review: This beautiful piece of work was written in 1965, but seems to flow from the pages of yesterday's NY Times. I've purchased adleast 30 copies and just given them away-It rivals anything done by Baldwin, Wright or Ellison. Manchild is an ideal introduction to the world of words and must reading for the planet Earth!

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Summary: The Greatest of the 20th Century American Autubiographies
Review: This book for me is the most startling and important autobiography regarding black inner city life even when compared to Malcom X's. When I was a teenager growing up in the inner city in the eighties, the older black middle class generation spoke to us "youngbloods" as if we invented crime. The sickness of self hate, envy, disrespect in our community existed for a long time before it became fashionable to parade these ailments in front of mass media for profit. Manchild details these problems through a teenager growing up in the fourties in an inner city environment who luckily makes a turn for the better at the right time before becoming an adult. This is an American story, not just a black one, and one that details why blind conservative patriotism and easy fix liberal solutions still continue to be difficult to swallow for youth attempting to survive an institutionalized system designed to almost guarantee their failure in life.

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Summary: A Definate "Must-Read"
Review: This book goes on my list of favorite books. It is a well told story of one's transition from being a boy to a man while trying to survive an break out of Harlem's trap. I had some trouble getting interested in the book in the beginning but once I did, I couldn't put it down. Realistic and compelling.

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Summary: A Definate "Must-Read"
Review: This book goes on my list of favorite books. It is a well told story of one's transition from being a boy to a man while trying to survive an break out of Harlem's trap. I had some trouble getting interested in the book in the beginning but once I did, I couldn't put it down. Realistic and compelling.

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Summary: A great book about a kid surviving the hood and prospering.
Review: This book is a vital book to read for those in search of an inner strength. The true story of Claude Brown growing up in the tough streets of NYC makes you think how well you have it going for all those living in a quaint sheltered life that doesn't have to deal with guns and murder everyday.

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Summary: The Best!
Review: This book started what I would like to believe as my introduction to adult reading at the age of 18. I could not put it down because captured the experience of a black child in a timeless caption of America. You understood the impact of one person on hiself and even those around him. You will never forget the unrelenting love he had for "Pimp." The love that only an older sibling could have for a younger sibling. Buy it! Then read "Down These Mean Streets."

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Summary: The Best!
Review: This book started what I would like to believe as my introduction to adult reading at the age of 18. I could not put it down because captured the experience of a black child in a timeless caption of America. You understood the impact of one person on hiself and even those around him. You will never forget the unrelenting love he had for "Pimp." The love that only an older sibling could have for a younger sibling. Buy it! Then read "Down These Mean Streets."

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Summary: This book is a must read for anyone
Review: This book takes you from group homes to the mean streets of Harlem where Claude Brown tested fate and even some of societies taboos yet was able to pull himself up from the ghetto. He looks at child hood frineds that slipped through the cracks of society that became heroin addicts, pimps, players, pushers, and prostitutes. He shows exactly what life in the ghettos is all about the pain and the suffering. I've read this book three times and it gets better each time.

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Summary: The Child That Lives In A Man
Review: This book was a passionate, but very demanding book. This book couldn't leave my sight for day's onto the end of night until I finished it. For me to see what this child has gone through, has my heart reaching out for others who are so much less fortunate. The reason why I picked The Child That Lives in a Man as my title is because there is always a little child living in each and everyone of us. That has gone through some kind of past like the child in the book has. Even as some might not be a bad as others, we have all been through basically the same thing.Thereason why I rate this book a four star is because it is so moving that your heart will want to reach out for others as well as mine did.