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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

a Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
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May 20, 2017tauseef365 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Fascinating. Truth is stranger than fiction. This book should be studied in American sociology classes. The conflict and struggle among many disparate worlds and personalities is ultimately, as the title states, tragic. I was mostly rooting for Rob as he rose above his circumstances as a child, and I recommended it to my teenagers. Then I read more, and I was horrified, and I told my kids to skip it. This is a story of a man's roots being a towering anchor. I don't think a sheltered white writer is the right person to write this book, as real world racism rarely figures into the telling, and that's a significant deficit when trying to understand Rob Peace's tragically flawed decision-making process.