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The Shame of the Nation
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 16.00?The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we?re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.? Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds... more...
Letters to a Young Teacher
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca?s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher... more...
Rachel and Her Children
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95"Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness." THE BOSTON GLOBE There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable... more...
Illiterate America
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00"Kozol...has assembled facts, rebuttals, and proposals?in an emotionally potent, ethically charged package."?Kirkus. more...
Ordinary Resurrections
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age , the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago. Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace , this work also takes place in New York's... more...
Amazing Grace
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless,... more...
Savage Inequalities
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the... more...
Fire in the Ashes
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 27.00In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace , and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into... more...
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