All God's Children,9780380728626

All God's Children

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ISBN13: 9780380728626
ISBN10: 0380728621
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-11-01
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

Considered by many to be the most dangerous inmate in the history of the New York penal system, Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five. His slaying of two subway riders at fifteen led to the passage of the first law in the nation allowing teenagers to be tried as adults. Yet sadly, Willie is not an aberration within the Bosket family--but rather the latest in a long line of brutal, exceptionally intelligent malefactors who were driven by circumstances, racism, and a distinctly American craving for respect by any means necessary. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning journalist Fox Butterfield traces a troubled family's history back to the days of slavery in an attempt to get to the roots of the violence endemic in our society.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE xiii
PART I 3(68)
CHAPTER 1 "BLOODY EDGEFIELD"
3(16)
CHAPTER 2 MASTERS AND SLAVES
19(16)
CHAPTER 3 AARON After Freedom
35(11)
CHAPTER 4 PUD "Don't Step on My Reputation"
46(25)
PART II 71(60)
CHAPTER 5 JAMES AND BUTCH Coming Up in the Terry
71(17)
CHAPTER 6 BUTCH The Promised Land
88(22)
CHAPTER 7 BUTCH The Pawnshop
110(21)
PART III 131(100)
CHAPTER 8 WILLIE Bad Little Booby
131(19)
CHAPTER 9 WILLIE "Little Man"
150(26)
CHAPTER 10 WILLIE The Boy No One Could Help
176(28)
CHAPTER 11 WILLIE The Baby-Face Killer
204(27)
PART IV 231(52)
CHAPTER 12 BUTCH The Prisoner and the Scholar
231(20)
CHAPTER 13 BUTCH AND WILLIE The Warriors
251(12)
CHAPTER 14 WILLIE Counsel for the Defense
263(20)
PART V 283(42)
CHAPTER 15 BUTCH Free at Last
283(19)
CHAPTER 16 WILLIE A Monster Created by the System
302(23)
EPILOGUE 325(7)
A NOTE ON SOURCES 332(3)
NOTES 335(39)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 374(3)
INDEX 377

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