Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan

Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol.  Add a profoundly moving and critically acclaimed work of social non-fiction to your collection. In Amazing Grace, National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol offers a devastating, beautifully written, and deeply personal look at the lives of children growing up in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood in the United States. Kozol spends a year talking to the children, pastors, and shopkeepers of the community, capturing their incredible resilience, spiritual devotion, and eloquence in the face of profound racial isolation, sickness, and poverty.  Rather than treating his subjects as economic statistics, Kozol focuses on their humanity, asking vital political and theological questions about how society values a child's life. This 1995 classic remains a staple text for book clubs, sociology students, educators, and anyone passionate about social justice