The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
About this book
On arriving at Yale, Jeff Hobbs became fast friends with the man who would be his roommate for four years. Robert Peace's life had been rough, living in poverty with his mother in 1980s Newark, his father in jail. But he was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier. It didn't. In an honest rendering of Robert's relationships in two fiercely insular worlds, Hobbs encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America. (Bestseller)
Subjects
- african american college graduates
- african americans
- african americans, biography
- alumni and alumnae
- arbeiterkind
- biography
- college graduates
- drogenhandel
- drug dealers
- friends and associates
- friendship
- large type books
- new jersey, biography
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
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- schwarze
- slums
- stipendiat
- universities and colleges
- working class african americans
- working class, united states
- yale university
- yale university, alumni and alumnae