{"product_id":"9780671004644","title":"Our America","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eOur America\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lealan Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThrough two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now this powerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, \u003ci\u003eOur America\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism, they tell their own stories and others, including that of the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was dropped to his death from the fourteenth floor of an Ida B. Wells apartment building by two other little boys.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sometimes funny, often painful, but always charged with their dream of \u003ci\u003eOur America,\u003c\/i\u003e LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman reach out to grab your attention and break your heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003eJudith Newman The New York Times Book Review \u003ci\u003eOur America\u003c\/i\u003e is meant to stir the mind and break the heart, and it does just that.\u003cbr\u003eLouise Kiernan Chicago Tribune Heart-cracking power....\u003ci\u003eOur America\u003c\/i\u003e stands out because its voices spill out virtually unrestrained -- raw, ugly and eloquent.\u003cbr\u003eD. Cooper Philadelphia Inquirer A remarkable book....Jones and Newman present observations that draw empathy and surprise.\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Colin L. Powell LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have told us a story that should tear at our hearts. They speak of a 'different America.' One where crime, drugs, lack of jobs, and every imaginable social ill work to break the human spirit. Some youngsters rise above it, but too many of them don't have a chance. They are trapped. Read this moving chronicle and resolve to help a young person in need in your community to believe in the American dream.\u003cbr\u003eFrank McCourt Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e You won't reach the last page of \u003ci\u003eOur America\u003c\/i\u003e without wondering what country this book is about. The young authors, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, have given us dispatches from hell, bleak and numbing as anything from Vietnam. You despair of the waste of young lives but hope that at least two will be saved: the sensitive and perceptive young Jones and Newman. We rage and pray for them and their generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780671004644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40590117798094,"sku":"9780671004644","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_4662aa79-2a40-41e4-8e17-885d34e5f666.jpg?v=1637732346","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780671004644","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}