The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League (Paperback)

from bookchickdi

Sometimes you read a book that, when you finish, you want to put in the hands of everyone you meet. I feel that way about Jeff Hobbs' The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace. Peace is the son of Jackie, hard-working single mom from Newark, New Jersey. His father Skeet is a drug dealer who is in...

from c.archer

This is a book that will make you ask why. Why did someone who had so much talent and opportunity still feel that he didn't deserve success? Why did he very nearly give up his own life for those he loved? Why did the missteps of his father have such a draw on him? Why could he not believe in his ...

from nancynova

So sad. Brilliant black man of a father in prison and a mother who works in a nursing home kitchen, is given the gift of an Ivy League education, then he returns to his family and hometown of Newark, doesn't really know how to parlay his educational gift into a life. He spent his life around drug...

from SigmundFraud

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Peace's Yale roommate, Jeff Hobbs. This is a very disturbing story. A kid of the ghetto had it all but blew it. It was a wasted seat at Yale from which he graduated at the top of his class. A mo...

from chrisblocker

Before I even cracked the spine of this book, I had my reservations. What truly was the author's relationship with the subject? Was this another case of exploiting of a tragedy? What is the purpose of this book? To solidify stereotypes? To give fodder to those who say "you can take the black man ...